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US financial aid programme for South Asian societies
WASHINGTON. Jan 26: For a generation of American scholars and students, the Overseas Research Centres located in South Asia have provided an opportunity to explore the cultural richness of the Subcontinent. a chance to learn its languages. and to study the complexities of South Asian societies. reports AP.
Since the 1970s. the United States has provided — via the Department of State and the US Information Agency — financial support under trie Fulbright programme for a number of these centers in South Asia to assist them in carrying out their activities.
Until 1993. USIA provided funds to these organisations on a direct basis, then began providing funds lo lhe Council of American Overseas Research Centres which now oversees the distribution of assistance to the .research centres.
- Most of these studies associations were originally established to facilitate the work of scholars in academic fields, but their activities increasingly include sponsoring conferences and fora to Increase understanding .and intellectual exchange among peoples.
Ten centres worldwide receive support from USIA, three of which are located in the Asian Subcontinent:
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). AUS is headquartered at the University of Chicago and maintains six offices in India — in Calcutta, Madras. Pune. Madurai, Ram-nagar, and two in New Delhi — as well as two major research archives, one specializing in art and archaeology, the other in ethnomusicology.
AUS was established in 1961. to promote Indian studies by Americans, to provide accurate knowledge about India to the international scholarly community. and to foster cross-cultural understanding between people from both countries.
During the last thirty-five years. AlfS has awarded more Ihfln 3,000 research fellowships in a wide range of disciplines plus grants to more than 730 US graduate students to study Hindi, Bengali. Tamil. Sanskrit. and other languages of the Subcontinent. USIA funds support approximately fifteen fellowships for US students and s< linters to study or conduct research work In India annually.
Demonstrating a bilateral operational approach. AUS is supervised by a Board of Trustees in the United States and by an Indian advisory group and a binational committee in India.
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies. AIPS is a consortium of institutions and individuals created in 1973. The goals of the organization are to promote American scholarly research In Pakistan and promote interaction between the peoples of the two countries. AIPS is headquartered in the United States at Wake Forest University and recently opened its first independent 'field office in Pakistan.
USIA budget support for AIPS makes possible approximately six grants for US scholars to do research in Pakistan and sponsors Pakistani scholars traveling to the United States.
The American Institute of Bangladesh Studies. AIBS was founded in 1989. It is headquar tered at Juniata College in Huntingdon. Pennsylvania. AIBS is represented in Dhaka by the Center for Development Research Bangladesh, founded In 1982, by Bangladeshi schol-
ars. businessmen, government officials, and NGO activists.
AIBS and CDRB aim to increase the knowledge of Bangladeshi society and culture and to enhance mutual understanding between the two countries.
Activities currently being pursued by AIBS include supporting two Bangladeshi schol-ars-in-residence in the US workshops in Bangladesh for local scholars, supplemental support for six American scholars doing research in Bangladesh as AIBS Fellows, mostly funded by the Bangladeshi government, support of US undergraduate students doing social science research in Bangladesh, and a small program translating Bengali works into English.
These centre of research constitute one of tlie best avenues for American academics and students lo become ac qualnted with South Asian so cieties. They also promote the important goal of strengthening knowledge and mutual understanding between Americans-and the civilizations, cultures, and peoples of the subcontinent.