Minutes, accounts, correspondence and visitors' books
Records of the Indian Institute
Archive Collection
- This material is held at
- ReferenceGB 450 II/1-9
- Dates of Creation1878-1962
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description5 volumes and 5 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
In 1875 Sir Monier Monier Williams, Boden Professor of Sanskrit, launched a public appear for money, artifacts and books in order to establish the Indian Institute in Oxford. Monier Williams proposed that the Institute should form 'a centre of union, intercourse, inquiry and instruction for all engaged in Indian Studies'. It was to contain lecture and reading rooms, a library and a museum. The teachers were to be paid by the University or by separate endowments. It the future he hoped that 'it might combine applicances for the promotion of Semitic Studies...so as to become a nucleus of development for a complete Oriental Schools at Oxford'.
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Acquisition Information
Received from the University Offices on 23 Mar 1987
Note
Description compiled by Alice Blackford, Assistant Keeper
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