AIIS staff was delighted and much honored to welcome the U.S. Ambassador to India, Honorable Mr. Timothy J. Roemer, to the AIIS center in Gurgaon on August 20, 2010.
Read more →On January 2nd and 3rd, 2012, twelve AIIS Junior Fellows (including a bumper crop of historians and anthropologists and a political scientist; see participant list below) left their research sites, ranging from sometimes-dusty archives in Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai, and Delhi, to sometimes-dusty villages in rural Jharkhand, Rajasthan,
Read more →At the end of December 2011, AIIS inaugurated its brand new building on its property at D-31 Defence Colony. The new building is conveniently located right by a new Delhi Metro stop! Click here to see more photos of the inauguration of the
Read more →The American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and the University of Chicago South Asia Language and Area Center…
Read more →Click here to download a PDF of the 2011-2012 Fellowship Recipients.
Read more →Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the American Institute of Indian Studies in 2012 A Unique Opportunity to Endow a Named Fellowship. AIIS has recently begun a significant effort to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Institute in 2012 by creating the Scholars Challenge, an opportunity for scholars
Read more →Ehud Halperin, who was an AIIS junior fellow in 2009, was awarded the 2011 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences
Read more →Former AIIS Hindi Student Elected First Indian-American Alderman in Chicago Ameya Pawar, who participated in the AIIS Hindi Summer Language Program in Jaipur in 2009, will become Chicago’s very first Indian-American alderman. Mr. Pawar will assume his position as alderman of the 47thWard on the north side
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