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Show \¥'>H)H3 October, 1961 ^OPOSAL FOR AN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES TO J^2 LOCATED IN INDIA AND SUPPORTED UNDER P. L. 430 Congress has authorized the use of Public Law 430 funds available In Indian currency for educational activity to enhance mutual understanding between the United States and India. The principal educational purposes which may be sought are, first, obtaining new knowledge of India through scholarly research, second, training American specialists on India in the various academic disciplines, and third, incorporating some knowledge of India and some sense of its relevance to our own national concerns in the general education of large numbers of Americans. All those purposes are vital to the national need of developing citizen comprehension of India's situation and of her background and aspirations - comprehension commensurate with the intensive and lasting relationships which are now being established between the two countries in the spheres of economic development and international cooperation. The proposal which follows is directed toward all those purposes. Thus, it represents a proper claim upon public funds. .What we propose, in the briefest language, is an American Institute of Indian Studies, to be located within India, and to take full benefit of the Indian setting and of the scholarly resources of India to serve the above purposes. The Institute's, Functions. The Institute will be designed and established to support the advancement of knowledge and understanding of India primarily through studies in that country by Americans. Three specific categories of Americans to be selected and appointed to Institute fellowships are described below. In conducting these fellowship programs the Institute will from time to time select scholarly problems for investigation, arrange seminars concerning them of junior or senior scholars of Indian, American, and other nationalities, publish research findings, and otherwise facilitate and enhance learning. It should be envisioned that modifications of, and additions to these functions might grow out of the first few years' experience. 1. To provide new opportunities in India for mature scholarship and research by American specialists in the various fields of the humanities and social studies. The Institute will appoint and maintain in India each year up to twenty senior Fellows. These will be at the post-doctoral level of competence. Stipends and travel allowances will be such as to permit the grantees to work in India with their families without financial gain or loss. |