National Institute of Advanced Studies | Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru - 560 012, India

Prof. C. Raja Mohan delivers the K Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture on 13th August 2019.

Participants of the National Workshop on Science Film Making held at NIAS on 15 July 2019.

NIAS-MAIYAS PRODIGY hosted the Third Talent Serach Award Programme in collaboration with the Iyengar Foundation, and the National College, Bengaluru held on 4th January 2019 at NIAS.

Participants of 34th NIAS Programme for Senior Executives on "The Promise of India: Achieving the Potential to be a Global Leader" held during 6-11 January 2020

Prof Rajaram Nagappa receiving the Prof. ML Sondhi Prize for International Politics for the year 2017 on behalf of ISSSP on 5th October 2018 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

NIAS Foundation Day: Celebrating 30 Years, held on 20th June 2018.

NIAS has a vibrant doctoral programme developing multi-disciplinary research in a variety of areas.

Faculty of NIAS are involved in writing books that stems from current and on-going research.

Check out the timeline of events in the history of NIAS.

Latest Publications

Bridges and Borders: Entanglements of Conservation—Conservation is Development in the Forests of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, India

By Priya Gupta

Bridging Development and Heritage: Expert Gaze, Local Discourses, and Visual Aesthetic Crisis at Hampi World Heritage Site

By Krupa Rajangam

Reading the Entanglements of Nature-culture Conservation and Development in Contemporary India

By Krupa Rajangam; Aparna Sundar

The Psychology of Teaching Critical History

By Shalini Dixit

Caste at the City’s Edge: Land Struggles in Peri-urban Bengaluru

By Carol Upadhya; Sachinkumar Rathod

The China–Nepal–India Economic Corridor: wishful thinking or regional aspiration beyond rhetoric?

By Anshuman Behera; Mayilvaganan M

Book Review of Indian Federalism (Oxford India Short Introductions) by Louise Tillin, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2019

By Swati Narayan

Recent Highlights

The Online Written Examination for admission to the NIAS Doctoral Programme is scheduled for Thursday, 20 May 2021, from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM. Detailed information on the examination will be sent directly to the candidates by email. Applicants with UGC / CSIR / DST INSPIRE NET JRF are exempt from the Written Examination and will be directly called for interviews subsequently. The list of candidates, shortlisted for interviews after the Written Examination, will be announced on this website on 25 May 2021.
Prof Sharada Srinivasan has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences as an International Honorary Member in the field of Social and Behavioral Sciences ie Anthropology and Archaeology
Prof S Sreenivasa Murthy, Adjunct Faculty is ranked 6th in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in an independent study conducted by Stanford University scientists of top 2 % scientists in India
OSPF and NIAS Collaboration Tuberculosis Newsletter January 2021
Dr Tejal Kanitkar was invited to a discussion on "Unpacking the IEA’s India Energy Outlook 2021: The sectoral transitions underpinning long-term scenarios" organised by CPR and IEA on 18 March 2021
Nuclear Risk Perception and Communication @ NIAS
Risk Perception & Communication in the Nuclear Energy Domain Survey
Opportunities
- Project Associate I (Heritage Science and Society Programme)
A word of appreciation from Chadong village for Dr Jeebanlata Salam, The Sangai Express,10 October 2020
NIAS Doctoral Programme: Rules, Regulations and Guidelines, September 2020
Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan, PhD Scholar who has dedicated his academic life to understanding elephants and sharing their knowledge is featured in edexlive.com as one of the socally responsible social media influencers.

Forthcoming Events

NIAS Wednesday Discussion - Prof. Sisir Roy will speak on “Periodicity of redshift and new challenge to Big Bang”

19 May 2021
NIAS SERB Workshop on "Algorithmic Thinking in Indic Tradition"

4 Jun 2021 to 13 Jun 2021