Rahul Peter Das (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rahul Peter Das (born 7 July 1954 in Haan) is the professor of South Asian studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he is also the Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy I and erstwhile Director of the Centre for Languages of the University. He is a Board Member of the EuroIndia Centre, and received the Hind Rattan Award in 2006, the Nav Rattan Award in 2009. Das, of Indo-German parentage, was born in Germany, but raised in Calcutta; he returned to Germany in 1974. Through his teachers Klaus Ludwig Janert and Albrecht Wezler, students of the famous Paul Thieme, he was influenced by the stringent principles of philological research of the latter. He applied these principles when he instituted, in 2000, the new subject of South Asian Studies (Sudasienkunde) at his university. This subject is based on an approach to the study of South Asia different from Indology, which too continues to be represented at the university.