南亚研究系提供的研究课程可授予哲学博士学位（博士学位）。虽然研究生的工作是针对个人的智力兴趣量身定制的，但我们希望所有博士生都将其工作以基础语言资料为基础，并参与对南亚语言，历史和文化的广泛跨学科研究。<br> <br>该系开设了历史悠久且定义明确的研究生课程，包括梵文和印度研究以及藏族和喜马拉雅研究。我们希望博士研究生会提出南亚研究的其他课程。这样的课程可能具有区域性重点，学科或多学科性重点，或者着重于南亚历史的特定时代，包括现代南亚。南亚研究的学者们开创了当今全球学院最激动人心的一些跨学科工作，该计划
The Department of South Asian Studies offers programs of study leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. While graduate work is tailored to individual intellectual interests, it is our expectation that all doctoral students will ground their work in primary language materials and participate in broadly interdisciplinary studies of South Asian languages, histories, and cultures. The Department has historic and well-defined courses of graduate study in Sanskrit and Indian Studies and in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. It is our expectation that candidates for doctoral study will propose other programs in South Asian Studies. Such programs may have a regional emphasis, a disciplinary or multi-disciplinary emphasis, or an emphasis on a particular era of South Asian history, including modern South Asia. Some of the most exciting multi-disciplinary work in the global academy today has been pioneered by scholars of South Asian Studies, and this program intends to provide a platform for such study here at Harvard. All of the Department's Ph.D. programs emphasize the study of South Asian languages as foundational for scholarly work. Currently, members of the Department focus in their own work on Hindi-Urdu (including Avadhi, Braj, and modern dialects), Middle Indic (Pali, Prakrit), Nepali, Sanskrit (Vedic, Classical), Tamil (Classical, Modern), and Tibetan (Classical, Modern). The Department also supports instruction in Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Burmese, Gujarati, Sindhi, and Thai. Persian is regularly offered through the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. We emphasize a rigorous approach to South Asian texts and traditions, the cultural, intellectual, and social practices that they inform, and the diverse disciplinary perspectives that are needed to study and write about them. Students are encouraged to view their chosen topics in their historical contexts while also exploring their significance to ongoing South Asian traditions and/or to contemporary issues in the humanities and social sciences.