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'''Rahul Peter Das''' (born 7 July 1954 in [[Haan]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]) is the professor of [[South Asia]]n studies (''Südasienkunde'') at the [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg]], where he is also the Dean of Studies of the [http://www.philfak1.uni-halle.de/ Faculty of Philosophy I]. He was the President of the German Association for Asian Studies ([[:de:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde|Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde]]) from 2016 to 2019, and received the [[Hind Rattan]] Award in 2006, the [[Nav Rattan]] Award in 2009.

Das, of mixed Indian ([[Bengali people|Bengali]]) and German parentage, was born in [[Germany]], but raised in [[Calcutta]]. He attended the [[Calcutta Medical College]] and the [[Maulana Azad College]], both affiliated to the [[University of Calcutta]] for his medical preparatory education.<ref>[http://www.suedasien.uni-halle.de/das.html Das CV]</ref> He returned to Germany in 1974, where he studied [[Indology]], [[Islamic studies]] and [[Tamilology]] at the [[University of Cologne]] and the [[University of Hamburg]], obtaining all his degrees from the latter. 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]] (Südasienkunde) 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. In a manner new for the German-speaking area, it combines elements of philology and the social sciences, but with a methodology derived from philology: data-based and not taking its cues from models or theories, in which respect it differs from approaches prevalent in the English-speaking world. The languages of reference are modern South Asian languages, not Sanskrit; South Asian Islam is a part of the curriculum.

Das' student Hans Harder obtained the first [[Venia legendi]] in the new subject and subsequently went on to the [[University of Heidelberg]] to become the professor for Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, known before Harder took over the chair as Modern Indology.

Das has published widely and authoritatively on a variety of subjects ranging from Vedic linguistics through South Asian Islam and Tamil to Security Studies.<ref>[http://www.suedasien.uni-halle.de/das/publieng.pdf Publications of Rahul Peter Das]</ref> His particular areas of interest are, however, Bengal and Bengali, as well as traditional South Asian medicine. One of his major publications in the context of Bengali is his [https://www.academia.edu/13244541/Lehrbuch_der_modernen_bengalischen_Hochsprachen ''Lehrbuch der modernen bengalischen Hochsprachen''], a comprehensive teaching device for and grammar of Bengali in German.

In 2006, Das initiated the interdisciplinary Working Group on Post-classical South Asia (Arbeitskreis Neuzeitliches Südasien) within the German Association for Asian Studies ([[:de:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde|Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde]]).

Das is the editor / co-editor of:
* ''[https://www.suedasien.uni-halle.de/tsam/tsam.htm Traditional South Asian Medicine]''
* ''Südasienwissenschaftliche Arbeitsblätter'' (''Working Papers on South Asian Studies'')
* ''Mitteilungen zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen Welt'' (''Communications on the Social and Cultural History of the Islamic World'')
* ''Veröffentlichungen zur Indogermanistik und Anthropologie'' (''Publications on Indo-European Studies and Anthropology'')
* South Asia editor of ''Orientalistische Literaturzeitung'' (''Review of Literature on the Orient'')
* South Asia editor of the new (3rd) edition of ''Kindlers Literatur Lexikon''

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.suedasien.uni-halle.de/das.html Biodata of Rahul Peter Das from the university website]
*[http://www.suedasien.uni-halle.de/das/publieng.pdf Complete list of publications of Rahul Peter Das]
*[https://halle.academia.edu/RahulPeterDas Downloadable selected publications]
*[http://www.asienkunde.de Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde] {{in lang|de}}
*[http://asienforschung.de/wir-ueber-uns/akns/ Arbeitskreis Neuzeitliches Südasien] {{in lang|de}}
*[http://www.suedasien.uni-halle.de/SAWA.htm Südasienwissenschaftliche Arbeitsblätter] {{in lang|de}}
*[http://www.ergon-verlag.de/orientalistik/mitteilungen-zur-sozial--und-kulturgeschichte/index.php Mitteilungen zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen Welt] {{in lang|de}}
*[http://www.hempen-verlag.de/sprachwissenschaften/indogermanistik/einzeltitel.html Veröffentlichungen zur Indogermanistik und Anthropologie] {{in lang|de}}
*[http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/olzg?rskey=bLa2DX&result=1 Orientalistische Literaturzeitung] {{in lang|de}}
*[[:de:Kindlers Literatur Lexikon|Kindlers Literatur Lexikon]]

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