Introduction: The State of India Studies in the United States, 2006

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Notes

1. Maureen L. P. Patterson, “History of the Study of India in the United States,” in Joseph W. Elder, Edward C. Dimock, Jr., and Ainslie T. Embree, eds., India's Worlds and US Scholars, 1947–1997 (New Delhi: Manohar, 1998), p. 108.

2. The most comprehensive survey of India studies in the United States can be found in Elder, Dimock, and Embree, eds., India's Worlds and US Scholars. The volume's assessment covers only until 1995, so does not take into account new and substantial changes in the past decade.

3. For more on visa denials, see Paul R. Brass, “American Political Science and South Asian Studies: Virtue Unrewarded,” Economic and Political Weekly, September 9, 1995, pp. 2257–62. See also Francine R. Frankel, “Understanding India: The Role of Foreign Scholars,” Lecture delivered at India International Centre, March 19, 2001.

4. See Sumit Ganguly and R. Harrison Wagner, “India and Pakistan: Bargaining in the Shadow of Nuclear War,” Journal of Strategic Studies Vol. 27, No. 3 (September 2004), pp. 479–507.

5. Susan S. Wadley, “Anthropology,” in Elder, Dimock, and Embree, eds., India's World and US Scholars. pp. 111–137.

6. This bias may hold true for all regional area studies, not just India. From 1965 to 1994 (further breakdown unavailable), graduate students in political science and economics combined accounted for only 12–13% of all Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grants. The great majority of such fieldwork grants go to students in history and anthropology. See the study conducted by CAORC (Council of American Overseas Research Centers). Accessible via www.caorc.org/about/fulbright-hays.html.