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Show 2 The Institute will facilitate the work of Senior Fellows by making available working space, a select reference library and interlibrary loan privileges, contact with other scholars - particularly Indian scholars -- and introductions to sources of research materials. The Institute will assist in providing housing for Jenior Fellows. They will be free to work in the Institute's facilities or elsewhere. 2. To provide training facilities in India for the final stage • of training of American graduate students specializing in India and accepted on the basis of criteria established by the Institute. This training would ordinarily involve advanced and specialized study of an Indian language or languages, and the gathering of data for, and writing of, a dissertation. The content of the dissertation would be supervised by the student's own university faculty supervisor in the United States, but the Institute would heliD to arrange a placement for him, and to arrange language" instruction. Among the graduate students would be some selected for National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships. Consideration should be given to providing Public Law 430 travel and maintenance funds for those holding fellowships under the National Defense Education Act, since these fellowships do not carry allowances for international travel. Students appointed to the Institute will have the title and status of Graduate Fellows. 3. To make possible supplementary knowledge of India for the large number of existing American faculty members concerned with teaching courses which use considerable Indie materials, but who, because their interest in India arose after their doctoral training was completed, lack systematic preparation in an Indian language and in other aspects of Indian culture. These individuals would be called Faculty Fellows and would be appointed on the same terms as the Senior Fellows. The elements of study most needed are: (a) Indian history and thought, with an emphasis on the enduring components of Indian culture, and (b) an intensive, rapidly accelerating course in one of the major Indian modem languages. Several languages would be taught as needed. Faculty fellows would be expected to have taken an introductory language course of at least one summer's duration before going to India. It is poss itself of ._. __ for the training area. |
