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AIIS Research Fellowship Program For more than 50 years, the American Institute of Indian Studies has provided funding to pre- and post-doctoral scholars and artists in pursuit of knowledge about India.

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0:07 AIIS is different in that it's very
0:10 particularly geared toward people who
0:12 are entering a profession that requires
0:14 a careful study of some subject in India
0:17 so it's unique in this way and
0:20 because it's unique in this way it's
0:23 really vital because there's nothing
0:24 else that can compare
0:40 I've come as an AIIS fellow to do my
0:43 dissertation research for a project on
0:46 partition and visual culture in India
0:49 and Pakistan in the 1940s and 1950s what
0:52 my project is trying to do is to put
0:53 partition back into the story and I do
0:56 that through three cross-border case
0:58 studies first of all it's a great
1:01 fellowship to have it gives you total
1:03 freedom for interesting projects risky
1:07 projects I went with my interest
1:10 fellowship to Hyderabad India and was
1:12 partnering with two different
1:14 community-based organizations that were
1:17 women's collectives working sort of
1:19 broadly on women's empowerment and
1:20 gender and development issues and then
1:22 more specifically on domestic violence
1:25 sexual assault and response to that AI
1:28 yes I think does really a superb job of
1:32 supporting early emerging scholars as
1:34 well as those who are more well
1:35 established and as professions my very
1:38 first day I spent was while I was still
1:40 a PhD student I was working on my
1:42 dissertation and it is one of the few
1:44 grants that allows you to spend a
1:46 substantial amount of time in India and
1:49 allows you to actually be able to have a
1:52 lot of contact with local scholars and
1:55 local institutions partly because the
1:58 AIS has very robust institutional
2:00 contacts in India wherever I went I was
2:04 encountering people who knew a Tobias
2:06 fellows or worry dub Elias fellows or
2:08 had some interaction with a SS in one
2:10 way or another and that environment
2:13 actually throughout all of my career has
2:15 really supported me
2:20 it connects you into a network of
2:22 scholars both within India and the
2:24 United States and across those borders
2:27 that helps you to see the framework of
2:30 your project within the larger field of
2:32 South Asian Studies and also just
2:34 connects you to folks doing different
2:35 kinds of work it's really I feel at the
2:37 heart of what makes Indian studies at
2:40 the in the u.s. so interdisciplinary
2:41 because we have this body that defies
2:45 any disciplinary distinction and it's
2:47 entirely focused on this one subject I
2:49 think the interdisciplinary aspect of
2:51 that is also really awesome because it
2:54 helps you to see different kinds of
2:56 works people are doing and the kinds of
2:58 questions they're asking how they're
2:59 going about their work which helps you
3:01 ask new questions of your own project
3:05 AIS prides itself on the kind of service
3:08 that it offers to scholars and it's a
3:12 very warm and friendly and caring kind
3:14 of service AIIS has helped me through so
3:18 many things from start to finish it's
3:20 not easy to navigate this these kinds of
3:23 bureaucracies here especially if you're
3:25 unfamiliar with them whether it's
3:26 libraries or these offices or
3:29 registration offices and there's always
3:31 someone in the office here to help it's
3:33 that kind of logistical support to the
3:36 intellectual support they give right
3:38 AIIS creates a very special community of
3:42 scholars and students that I haven't
3:44 found anywhere else with any other kind
3:46 of fellowship program that's very
3:49 specific to South Asia I think they play
3:52 a very vital role in keeping alive that
3:54 intellectual community of South Asian
3:56 expertise it's a social network it's a
3:58 place for us to get together and to talk
4:01 about something and there is no other
4:02 opportunity for that I think that we
4:04 need to continue to grow our knowledge
4:06 of South Asia and I think one of the
4:10 reasons that we can do this is because
4:12 of institutions like a double I asked so
4:15 they're just a fantastic you know friend
4:18 for any scholar who is wandering around
4:20 India
International Mother Language Day Celebration 2023

Why India?

India is an important, dynamic part of today's world.

The India Studies major equips students to understand and become engaged with a complex and exciting part of the world. This major gives students a competitive edge in the increasingly global market.

Faculty/Student Spotlight

Purnima Bose

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English Department Professor and Founding Member of the Dhar India Studies Program Faculty Purnima Bose recently published a monograph, Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror in 2020 (Rutgers University Press). This book analyzes films, memoirs, and novels that have circulated in the United States about its clandestine and overt military operations in Afghanistan from 1979 to the present. Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror explores the significance of the historical erasures and the production of sentiment that allows these narratives to function as propaganda.

To learn more about Professor Bose and her work visit Indiana Univeristy English Department Faculty: Purnima Bose

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