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Indology has the longest history among the departments at the Institute of Oriental Philology. Lectures in Sanskrit had been started here already in the sixties in XIX century and soon in 1893 a regular chair for Sanskrit had been established. The modern Department of Indology offers professional education in civilisations, cultures and languages of South Asia, and particularly so in the linguistic areas of Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu (soon also in Tamil and Malayalam) which transcend political boundaries of modern India. A wide and variegated range of subjects pertaining to and expressed in those languages fall within the scope of our education and research programmes: literary and religious traditions, the world of manuscripts written on palm leaves as well as modern topics in literary criticism, textual and linguistic studies , systems of ancient knowledge, history as well as contemporary social and economic problems of South Asia, patterns of regional culture, architecture, theatre and performing arts of India. The staff of the Department coordinates and contributes to several international research projects and cooperation schemes. We publish Cracow Indological Studies. |
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