The Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies is a unique seat of Persian learning in India where the entire gamut of language, literature, history, culture and civilization of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Medieval India is covered in its various academic programmes from undergraduate to post graduate as well as research levels. The programme of the centre is langauge based, literature oriented, and includes studies of culture and civilization. Translation having theory and applied sides is an extensive course of the centre in which students are thoroughly trained. The Centre has developed a good infrastructure for its researches in the Modern Persian literature.

Apart from the creative literature of the Persian speaking countries, special attention is paid to their sociology, politics, history and economics to enable the students to pursue proper study and research.

The Centre has been running B.A., M.A., M.Phil. / Ph.D. programmes in Persian, and Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Pushtu language. The courses offered by the Centre include Translation, Interpretation, Audio-Visual, Literature, Culture, Aesthetics, Area Studies, Comparative and Interactive Studies etc.

Following are the major areas which the Centre has identified as thrust areas:

i) Contemporary Persian Literature-New Trends, ii) Interactive Literature, iii) Indo-Iran Relations, iv) Area Studies (Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan), v) Development of Pushto programme up to the level of Graduation and vi) Introduction of Turkish, Uzbek and Mongolian languages

Note:-
Entrance Examination for B.A. IInd year, M.A. and M.Phil. shall be conducted in the Persian language.