MA in
History and Philosophy

(Society, Technology and Environment)


MAHP is a 60-credit programme, in collaboration with the Kathmandu University, intended to provide curricula tailored to Himalayan and Southasian socio-ecological realities and aspirations, to prepare context-sensitive, professionally competent and socially committed graduates, and to help close an important ‘career gap’ in our societies.

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As a Humanities Scholar,
you will be able to pursue careers as:

  • Historian
  • Philosopher
  • Researcher
  • Public Intellectual
  • Policy Analyst
  • Planner
  • Diplomat
  • Public Servant
  • Journalist
  • Art and Literary Critique
  • Social Commentator
  • Public Communicator
  • Community Leader
  • Academic
  • I/NGO Project Specialist
  • Social Activist

SiHP has a very diverse Scholarship schemes

  • Merit-Based (upto 80% of the total fees)
  • Inclusive (upto 50% of the total fees)
  • Graded scholarships (partial to full tuition fees)
  • Chair Fellows
  • Director’s List
  • History & Philosophy Subject Scholarship
  • Stipend
  • Hardship Fund
  • Support for External Grants/Scholarships

Photo Credit: Yalamber Tamot
Source: Cāruvatī Thūpa: Kirat period inscription from Nepalmandala

About The Institute

Established in 2024, the Southasia Institute for History and Philosophy (SiHP) is dedicated to foster graduate studies with history and philosophy at its core. Through its Graduate Centre for Society, Technology and Environment, it will run a MA in History and Philosophy programme with three streams of Society, Technology and Environment. SiHP, established to provide stable leadership for the Graduate Centre, is a Company not Distributing Profit consisting of members with decades of experience in national as well as Southasian regional media, education, scholarship, archiving, environmental activism, heritage work, handicap response, corporate leadership and institution-building.

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Definitive Agreement Signing with Kathmandu University to launch MA in History and Philosophy programme (7 October 2024)
LOA Signing with Kathmandu University for Diploma in Archival Science (11 September 2024)

Programmes We Offer

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Diploma in Archival Science

Diploma in Archival Science is a 16-credit programme, in collaboration with the Kathmandu University and the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, that will produce human resource capable of handling modern-day archiving work that requires both conventional as well as digital skills.

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MA in History and Philosophy

MA in History and Philosophy is a 60-credit programme, in collaboration with the Kathmandu University, intended to provide curricula tailored to Himalayan and Southasian socio-ecological realities and aspirations, to prepare context-sensitive, professionally competent and socially committed graduates.

Photo Credit: Yalamber Tamot
Source: Cāruvatī Thūpa: Kirat period inscription from Nepalmandala

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Short-term Courses

A Course on New Humanities

This course is an introduction to SiHP’s New Humanities Programme. It has been designed for enabling the participants to comprehend select contemporary topics as informed by historical and philosophical insights.

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Philosophy Quartet: Women Philosophers of Southasia

This is a month-long thinking and reading seminar on the lives and thoughts of select women philosophers from Southasia. The aim is to deliberate as a group on the thoughtful responses of these philosophers to their lived experiences, and on whether their reflections provide productive, and not to mention comparative, vantages for comprehending the dilemmas, doubts and resolutions in the contemporary world. 

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HistoryFirst

This reading workshop is for you if you are interested in knowing about the long-term processes in the collective construction of the past and present of the individual and social selves and of their material and metaphysical foundations. 

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