July 17, 2019
Now Accepting Applications: Faculty Development Seminar on Urban Sustainability in India
Seminar: Exploring Urban Sustainability through India's CitiesIndia: December 26, 2019 – January 10, 2020 Application Deadline: September 16, 2019More Information and Apply: www.caorc.org/faculty-development-india For the second year, AIIS is partnering with…
July 8, 2019
Reflections on the Historical Relationship between People and Spaces
By Danny Sexton The Glass House, a central landmark of the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, was built in 1889. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9515661a …
June 18, 2019
AIIS Organizes All India Museum Summit
All India Museum Summit July 22 – 24, 2019, India International Centre, New Delhi The All India Museum Summit 2019, with financial support from the Embassy of the United States of…
May 29, 2019
AIIS Announces its 2019-2020 Fellowship Recipients
The American Institute of Indian Studies is Pleased to Announce that the Following Scholars have been Awarded Fellowships to Carry Out their Projects in India in 2019-2020: Tariq Ali, an…
May 3, 2019
Wildlife in the City: Challenging the Nature-Culture Binary
By Janny Li Janet Armitage (left) and Janny Li (right) on a sunrise elephant ride to Amber Fort in Jaipur. In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019 participant in…
April 5, 2019
AIIS 2019 Book Prizes Awarded to Dipti Khera and Bharat Venkat
The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities was awarded to Dipti Khera for The Place of Many Moods: Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century. The Joseph W.…
February 13, 2019
Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities
Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities by Robin Kietlinski “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our thinking, can we…
January 10, 2019
Hindi and Rural Development: The Education of Language Fellow Avital Datskovsky
Avital (left) at a Diwali celebration while participating in the AIIS Hindi language program. Avital Datskovsky couldn’t get enough of India. After participating in the 2013-14 academic year AIIS Hindi…
November 19, 2018
AIIS Trustee Michael Fisher Publishes Sweeping Anthology on Environmental History of India
AIIS congratulates Michael H. Fisher on the publication of his sweeping new anthology, An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press). Prof. Fisher…
November 14, 2018
AIIS Junior Fellow Jazmin Graves Named one of the Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40
Jazmin Graves AIIS congratulates junior fellow Jazmin Graves on being named one of the MIPAD Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40. The Most Influential People…