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Show 5 Board have incorporated the American Institute of Indian Studies in the State of Delaware. The Board of Trustees has elected officers of the corporation and an executive committee to carry on the affairs of the Institute. The Institute has Been formed on the assumption that invaluable help, in the way of access to university facilities, employment of visiting professors, and advice and consultation of fellow research scholars will come to it from Indian sources. On these matters, as on the broader questions of sound development of the Institute program, Indian views are needed. An advisory council of Indian individuals capable of taking the broadest view of education in India, and of international educational exchange, should be consulted on such questions before final decisions are reached. Win Undergraduate Educational Prog_ra,m for Americans in^ India. There was originally submitted, but separable from the program outlined above, a proposal for selected American undergraduates to be educated for a year in India, including language training. Such a program is not now proposed as a function of the American Institute, .,fhether such programs should receive supervision and funds through the American Institute can be decided later after some experience with them. |