The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) has awarded an empirical research grant to the tune of US$ 2 million to the Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania to support a research on international migration from India. This is the first time that the MOIA has awarded a research grant of this magnitude to an academic institution outside India.
“Penn was chosen because it is home to CASI, which has become known around the world as the first and only academic research unit in a U.S. University focused on contemporary India,” Mr G Gurucharan, Joint Secretary , MOIA said. “We see this as a small beginning.”
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Mr Gurucharan signed the agreement on behalf of the MOIA at the Penn’s College Hall on February 16. He was joined by Mr Rajeev Ranjan, Community Affairs Counselor at the Indian Embassy in Washington, Mr Shiv Ratan, Director, MOIA, among others |
He signed the agreement on behalf of the MOIA at the Penn’s College Hall on February 16. He was joined by Mr Rajeev Ranjan, Community Affairs Counselor at the Indian Embassy in Washington, Mr Shiv Ratan, Director, Financial Services and Budget at the MOIA, Ms Rebecca Bushnell, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn, Mr Devesh Kapur, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor and Director at CASI, Penn Provost Mr Vincent Price, Mr Jack H Nagel, Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, and Mr Ramin Sedehi, Vice Dean for Finance and Administration at Penn’s School of Art and Sciences.
Monitoring the Research Programme
The Research Programme will be guided and monitored by an Advisory Committee consisting of the Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of India (as Member-Convenor), Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, two professors to be nominated by the Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, a nominee of the Bureau of Migration, New Delhi, a representative of the Reserve Bank of India to be nominated by the RBI, two external experts in the field from academia to be chosen by the Member-Convenor for every specific meeting of the Advisory Committee, depending upon the focus of the meeting.
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CASI, which was founded in 1992, has been awarded numerous research grants from major philanthropic foundations such as The GE Fund, The Ford Foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation |
On its part, CASI will regularly provide updates on the research to the members of the Advisory Committee, which shall review the work of the research programme on a yearly basis and advise as and when needed. When necessary, the Committee will meet more often than its scheduled yearly meetings.
As principal investigator of the research project, the CASI director will be supported by a group of scholars recruited specifically for the purpose of conducting the research, as needed during the next four years. Mr Kapur’s forthcoming book, “Diaspora, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India on India” will be published this summer.
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About CASI
CASI, which was founded in 1992, has been awarded numerous research grants from major philanthropic foundations such as The GE Fund, The Ford Foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The CASI’s vision is to evolve and grow organically as an international hub for policy-relevant research on India, and to strengthen ties within and beyond the Penn network. Collaboration with our New Delhi counterpart research organization, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), widens CASI’s reach within India.
The University of Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of area studies since 1942 when Prof. W. Norman Brown pioneered the study of modern India, a full fifteen years before area studies appeared on any other US campus. That legacy continues at the School of Arts and Sciences through the Department of South Asian Studies and its South Asia Center, the stellar holdings of the South Asian Studies Collection at the Van Pelt Library, and most vibrantly, through CASI.
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