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Show 2 of the Ministry of Education. These arrangements had already been accepted as satisfactory by ..". Norman Brown, speaking for the Institute, and the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U, S, Embassy (Mr. Timmons), who at the time was Charge. 2. Immediately on securing the authorization of the Government of India, the Institute, acting through the President under instructions of the Executive Committee, formally approached the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs in the U. S. Department of State with a request for a contract. Both in New Delhi at the <U. 3, Embassy and in .Washington in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs preliminary informal conversations had shown that the Institute's request was likely to have favorable consideration. ./hen the formal approach was made, the Department raised a few questions, of which the most Important was that of assurance that the Institute would have adequate dollar resources to meet its dollar expenses. ./hen this assurance was secured (see next paragraph) on March 15, 1962, the Department was satisfied. It took three months, however, for the contract to be drafted in final form and presented to the Institute on June 15, 1962. It had been signed "by both parties on June 18, 1962. The contract put at the Institute's disposal ,,500,000 in equivalent rupees for the first year's operations, ,,,200,000 of which were to be payable at the Institute's bank in India at the time of the signing of the contract and the remaining ^300,000 to be payable in succeeding quarterly installments of ,,75,000 each. 3. Also, as soon as the authorization of the Government of India had been obtained, the Executive Committee notified the Ford Foundation, to which it had already made application for assistance. On March 15, 1952 the Foundation made an appropriation to the Institute of ^500,000 to be used in meeting dollar expenses during the first five years of operation, subject to the condition that the Institute obtain its contract with the Department of State. The first installment (.,100,000) of this appropriation has since been made available to the Institute. 4. The Institute's headquarters had been planned in the Proposal for location in Poona. In January and February 1961, Henry Hart and J. Norman Brown had had conversations about this with the heads of the various institutions in Poona with which the Institute expects to cooperate (Deccan College Oriental Research Institute, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, and the University of Poona) and found them favorable. In January and February, 1962 the Executive Committee, acting through the President, who was then in India, renewed these conversations. Two blocks of the Deccan College buildings, shortly due to become vacant when some new buildings were to be completed, were indicated as available for the Institute's use. One consisted of rooms suitable for a library, executive offices, and some study rooms. |