Overview

Research areas

In Uppsala University's Indology and Comparative Indo-European Philology programme, research within Indology is mainly concerned with literature in modern Hindi, from the 19th century until today, and, furthermore, classical bhakti texts in Neo-Indo-Aryan languages (especially nirguna bhakti), the history of religion and contemporary cultural history.

Within Comparative Indo-European Philology and the classical Indology, the Vedic language and Vedic literature takes center stage, and, furthermore, Tocharian, one of the Buddhist languages of Central Asia. We attribute great weight to international cooperation within research.

Programme Structure

Research projects:

Research within Hindi focuses on some contemporary Hindi authors.
Other lines of research include the publication of a Hindustani-French-Latin dictionary from 1703, and regional literary traditions in the Hindi dialect Garhwali from the state of Uttarakhand.
Another research project is concerned with contemporary Hindi theatre.
One project deals with the concept of ”liberating knowledge” in Vedanta traditions, with a mixture of sources in Sanskrit, Hindi, and English.
Within Comparative Indo-European Philology, research is ongoing in questions related to linguistic and cultural contact along the Silk Road in Buddhist Central Asia on the one hand, and on the other hand, about language, literary metaphors on conceptions of nature and landscapes in the oldest Vedic texts.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

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Language

English

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90

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Credits

240 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Visby, Sweden

Disciplines

Linguistics View 21 other PhDs in Linguistics in Sweden

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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90

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Other requirements

General requirements

A person meets the general entry requirements for PhD Programmes if he or she:

has been awarded a second-cycle qualification;
has satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits, of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second-cycle; or
has acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad.

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