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Can you tell me about the Academic Programmes and Areas of Research and Study in Indian Institute of Advanced Study?

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The aim of Indian Institute of Advanced Study is to provide opportunities for meeting of minds and commerce of ideas that extend the horizons of knowledge and wisdom and add new dimensions to the life and thought.

Academic Programmes

The ongoing academic program of the Institute is the research being done by its Fellows.

Institute also undertakes research project on which scholars from different areas work as a team.

The Institute also conducts several national level seminars every year on themes of pressing contemporary relevance as well as of fundamental theoretical significance.

The academic activities of the Institute are supported by interesting cultural and extra curricular activities and celebrations of national events and festivals in befitting manner.

Areas of Research

(a) The areas of investigation are such as would promote interdisciplinary research;

(b) The areas identified must have deep human significance;

(c) The principal areas for research must those in which scholars of eminence can be attracted in the initial stages, both for the purposes of developing the methodological framework for interdisciplinary research.

Area of Study

The following areas have been selected for studies by the Institute:
(a) Social, political and economic philosophy;
(b) Comparative Indian (including ancient, medieval, modern folk and tribal);
(c) Comparative studies in philosophy and religion;
(d) Development of world-views;
(e) Education, culture, arts including performing arts and craft;
(f) Fundamental concepts and problems of logic and mathematics.
(g) Fundamental concepts and problems of natural and life sciences;
(h) Studies in environment, natural and social;
(i) Indian civilization in the context of Asian neighbours; and
(j) Problems of contemporary India in the context of national integration and nation-building.

Topics
(a) Theme of Indian unity in diversity;
(b) Intergrality of Indian consciousness;
(c) Philosophy of education in the Indian perspective;
(d) Advanced concepts in natural sciences and their philosophical implications;
(e) Indian and Asian contribution to the synthesis of science and spirituality;
(f) Indian and human unity;
(g) A Campanion to Indian Literature;
(h) A Comparitive Study of Indian Epics; and
(i) Human Environment.


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Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Rashtrapati Nivas,
Shimla 171005

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