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Show 3 Location and Facilities. The proper Intellectual and administrative guidance of the Institute and the centralization of the basic instruction given in it require a single headquarters. Advanced language instruction, dissertation research and mature scholarship, however, need to be done in the distinctive cultural regions of India. The Institute will, therefore, function through a headquarters and at other locations as needed. This arrangement is necessary to reach, for purposes of American education and scholarship, the widely varying languages and cultures of the vast subcontinent nation. At the same time, the unified educational task will be to understand India. For accomplishing one of the principal points, the centralized training responsibility of the Institute - basic language instruction by the method of modern linguistics -- the headquarters should be established at the site of the Deccan College, Poona, with the expectation of operating also, as need arises, at Madras, Calcutta and Delhi. This arrangement will bring within access of those using the Institute the research materials, advanced language training facilities, and Indian scholars of the four great urban centers. It will also provide access to four distinctive language-culture areas. At Poona, the Institute will require offices for its resident director, administrative officer, teaching staff members, and clerical personnel. It will require a select library, and two seminar rooms. Faculty study-rooms would be provided for those Senior Fellows who wish to work there, and for Faculty Fellows. It will be desirable, initially, to rent space in buildings now on the Deccan College campus. As soon as needs can be accurately determined, space should be provided in a building erected expressly for the Institute. Housing should be provided for the teaching and administrative staff by lease and eventually by construction. Plans should be made to assure adequate housing for the Senior and Faculty Fellows located in Poona. It is likely that in Delhi the new International Center will provide excellent living and working accommodations and a desirable intellectual environment for those connected with the Institute who need to work in the city. The same is possibly true of the Institute of Culture of the Rama-IIrisIma Mission in Calcutta. In Madras, the American Institute may have to develop a minimum accommodation and housing arrangements for its members. Personnel. The resident director preferably should be a leading scholar in Indian studies, and a man experienced in developing an academic |
