Records of the Indian Institute

This material is held atOxford University Archives

Reference
- GB 450 II/1-9
Dates of Creation
- 1878-1962
Name of Creator
- Indian Institute, University of Oxford
Language of Material
- English.
Physical Description
- 5 volumes and 5 boxes

Scope and Content

Minutes, accounts, correspondence and visitors' books

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'.