A History of the AIIS, 1961 to 1998

Abstract

[from the preface] "The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) was set up in 1961 with W. Norman Brown as its first president. Brown, long-time Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania, and a handful of fellow scholars of India had labored for three decades to establish an American research center in India to carry out a wide array of humanistic and social science studies of the subcontinent. The genesis, development, and history of the Institute are the subjects of this study."