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The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), founded in 1961, is a consortium of 90 universities and colleges in the United States that promotes the advancement of knowledge about India in the U.S.
It is one of the two main Centers belonging to the American Institute of Indian Studies. It has its international headquarters situated in Gurgaon, Haryana. [1] Center for Art and Archaeology was established in 1965 as the American Academy of Banaras.
Professor Deutsch was awarded his first Fellowship in 1963 as a Faculty Fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies in India. From 1965 through 1967, he was a New York State Faculty Scholar in International Studies. He was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1973 to 1974.
Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. (March 18, 1929 – January 11, 2001) was an American author, linguist, scholar of Asian studies and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago. He is known for his contribution to Indian studies such as Bengali literature and South Asian civilizations.
Ainslie Thomas Embree (/ ˈ ɛ m b r iː /; January 1, 1921 – June 6, 2017) was a Canadian Indologist and historian. He was considered a leading scholar of modern Indian history and played a seminal role in the introduction of South Asian studies into US college and secondary education curricula.
He has been involved in numerous institutions that link US academics to regions of South Asia, such as the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.
William Norman Brown (June 24, 1892 – April 22, 1975) [1] was an American Indologist and Sanskritist who established the first academic department of South Asian Studies in North America and organized the American Oriental Society in 1926.
The American Institute of the City of New York (or The American Institute of the City of New York for the Encouragement of Science and Invention) was a civic organization that existed from c. 1828 – c. 1980. [1] The institute was an association of inventors. It organized exhibitions, lectures and radio broadcasts to inform the public about ...