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The Indian Institute was an institute within the University of Oxford. It was started by Sir Monier Monier-Williams in 1883 to provide training for the Indian Civil Service of the British Raj . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The institute's building is located in central Oxford , England , at the north end of Catte Street , on the corner with Holywell Street ...
This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in public life overseas. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the university, and others held fellowships at a college. This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford – for other lists, please see the main article List of ...
During a debate at the Oxford Union on 28 May 2015, the Indian Member of Parliament, diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor delivered a speech supporting the motion "Britain owes reparations to her former colonies". Tharoor was the seventh speaker in the debate, the final speaker from the proposition, and spoke for about fifteen minutes.
The Oxford University Students' Union is the official students' union of the University of Oxford. It is better known in Oxford under the branding Oxford SU or by its previous name of OUSU . It exists to represent Oxford University students in the university's decision-making, to act as the voice for students in the national higher education ...
The Indian Institute Library is a dependent library of the Bodleian and part of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Opened in 1886, the library specialises in the history and culture of South Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas. [1] The Indian Institute and its library were originally based in the building on the corner of Holywell and Catte ...
Monier Williams, the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit, photographed by Lewis Carroll. The position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was established in 1832 with money bequeathed to the university by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Boden, a retired soldier in the service of the East India Company. [1]
It helped launch the centre's Archeology and Text Project. The proceedings of this conference were published by Oxford University Press, in 2009. [38] The second Shivdasani Conference (2009) – Thinking Inside the Box: The Concept of a Category in Indian Philosophy– took place at Somerville College. It explored linguistic, aesthetic, and ...
Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer.She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University.