This volume aims to facilitate the people and government of Indiaon the 50th
anniversary of India's independence, to acknowledge theaways in which the study
of India has stimulate US scholars duringthe period and to express grattitude on
behalf of AIIS to peopleand the governement of India for their help in the
scholar'sendeavours. Papers in the volume highlight the role of AIIS duringthe
last 50 years and brings out the study of India to variousacademic disciplines
like anthropology, art history, economics,geography, history, languages,
literature, linguistics,mahtematics, science, philosophy, political science,
religiousstudies Sanskrit, sociology and performing arts,