The workshop is designed to keep faculty and graduate students of social science and humanistic disciplines concerned with South Asia in touch with new directions in the field by providing interdisciplinary models of methodological and substantive approaches. The workshop makes a special point of crossing the boundary between the humanities and social sciences. It collaborates with the South Asia Seminar, one dedicated to graduate student presentations, the other to presentations by resident or visiting scholars and faculty. The South Asia Seminar series and the TAPSA Workshop not only bring together scholars from various disciplines, but make a special point of attracting scholars from South Asia.