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St John's College announces the prestigious Dr. Manmohan Singh Scholarships 2012
30 November 2011
£35,000 scholarship per student set up exclusively for Indian students to read for PhD & MPhil degrees in science, technology, economics and social sciences.
St. John's College has released details of this year's prestigious 'Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships', the programme first launched at the Indian Prime Minister's residence in Delhi in 2007.
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Powerful words
09 November 2011
Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India's intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.
A major exercise in 'linguistic archaeology' has set out to complete a comprehensive survey of Cambridge University Library's South Asian manuscript collection, which includes the oldest dated and illustrated Sanskrit manuscript known worldwide.
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Cambridge-Hamied Visiting Lecture Scheme strengthens research bonds with India
14 July 2011
Collaborative research links between Cambridge and the University of Hyderabad in India have been further strengthened thanks to the Cambridge-Hamied Visiting Lecture Scheme.
Professor Ashwini Nangia spent five weeks in the Department of Chemistry last month thanks to the scheme which supports exchange research visits by Cambridge and Indian academics.
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India's new brand of colonialism
25 May 2011
The plight of Binayak Sen, the Indian public health expert recently bailed from prison on controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the problems facing India's adivasis (indigenous or tribal peoples), Cambridge University researchers have claimed.
Jonathan Kennedy and Lawrence King's paper appears in the latest edition of Social Science and Medicine, the world's most cited social science academic journal.
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Divine innovation
24 March 2011
Cow-lending, sewing and aerobics classes are just some of the ways Indian religious organisations across all the major faiths are diversifying their 'business model' to maintain the loyalty of their followers and attract new devotees.
A University of Cambridge team from the Faculty of Economics and the Cambridge Judge Business School, has spent two years surveying 568 Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Jain religious organisations across seven Indian states to examine their innovations in offering religious and non-religious service provision.
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Images of Empire head for the classroom
14 February 2011
Plans to develop a new teaching resource using a unique collection of films made in India during the final decades of British rule have been announced by the University of Cambridge.
The University's Centre of South Asian Studies houses a remarkable archive of almost 500 colonial amateur films, out of which 300 have already been digitised. It is now planning to create a series of short documentaries and a supporting web resource to make this material available to students, the media, other historians and anyone with an interest in the British Raj.
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Strengthening Conservation ties with India
26 January 2011
A leading Indian conservation expert has visited the University to work with a Cambridge counterpart and give a public lecture, thanks to the Cambridge Hamied Visiting Lectureship Scheme.
The Scheme has been established to stimulate exchange of ideas and academic collaboration between India and the University of Cambridge. It is named after its founder Dr Yusuf Hamied, Chairman of Cipla Ltd, India, and an alumnus of the University's Department of Chemistry and Christ's College.
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Tata Crucible Quiz this weekend
17 November 2010
Cambridge students will be competing with some of the sharpest minds from colleges and universities across the UK this coming Sunday in the national heat of an international quiz competition organised by the Tata group of companies.
Now in its third year, the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz UK 2010 will take place at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on Sunday 21 November starting at 2.30pm.
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Eminent economist receives Indian honour
16 November 2010
The eminent Cambridge economist Professor Ajit Singh has received the Glory of India Award for "individual excellence, excellent performance and outstanding contribution for the progress of the nation and worldwide."
Professor Singh is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Research Fellow at Judge Business School and a Life Fellow of Queens' College. He graduated from Punjab University and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He began teaching economics at Cambridge in 1965.
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India lecture series now available online
12 November 2010
A unique archive of lectures on India is now available to read online.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Lectures, which have been taking place since 1966, can be read on the website of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
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The Elephant Man
01 November 2010
The remarkable story of a daring World War II operation in which hundreds of people fleeing the Japanese advance through Burma were rescued by elephant is to be told in full for the first time.
Letters, diaries and - remarkably - amateur films shot during the expedition, which was organised by a British tea planter called Gyles Mackrell, will be examined in detail following their donation to the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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History books rewritten as CUP makes largest ever sale
26 October 2010
Cambridge University Press has made the biggest sale in its history to an academic library.
The sale, to the newest and biggest library in South Asia, located in Chennai, India, is worth £1,275m. The statistics don't end there: the order involved 35,174 books (211 sets), 33,409 ISBNs, and the generation of the biggest invoice the Press has ever issued - 2,794 pages long!
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Pavate Fellowship deadline extended
20 September 2010
A revised deadline for Indian postgraduate students to apply for a four-month funded Fellowship at Judge Business School, Cambridge comes up this week.
Under an agreement between The Dr D.C. Pavate Foundation, Karnatak University in Dhawad in the state of Karnataka, southern India, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, outstanding graduates from Karnataka under the age of 40 may apply.
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Indian student receives prestigious Cambridge scholarship
30 July 2010
Prashanth Venkataraman, a student from Chennai, India has received the first Pemanda Monappa Scholarship award to study at the University of Cambridge.
A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Prashanth is currently a Design Engineer with Saint-Gobain Glass India. He will pursue an M.Phil course in 'Engineering for Sustainable Development' starting this year.
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The Chancellor visits the University
22 June 2010
Ratan Tata, Hon. K.B.E., Chairman of the Tata Group of Companies, has been made an Honorary Doctor of Law by the University of Cambridge at a traditional formal ceremony, presided over by the University Chancellor, His Royal Highness Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh.
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Distinguished Indian Scientist to give inaugural BP Lecture
17 June 2010
One of India's most renowned scientists will give the inaugural BP Lecture for the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB) at Judge Business School on Monday evening.
Dr. Ramesh Mashelkar is presently the CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). He is also the President of Global Research Alliance, a network of publicly funded R&D institutes from Asia-Pacific, Europe and USA with over 60,000 scientists.
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MBAs' Indian Trip to Learn How to Succeed in Emerging Markets
17 June 2010
This coming weekend 17 of Cambridge Judge Business School's MBA students will embark on the School's inaugural Cambridge India Entrepreneurship Trip as part of the MBA programme's Capstone Project initiative.
The students will meet with founders and CEOs of India's leading companies in order to learn what unique aspects of these entrepreneurs and their business models have allowed them to succeed in one of the most important emerging economies of the 21st Century.
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India Week at Clare Hall
02 June 2010
India will be the focus of the latest country-themed week of events at Clare Hall next week.
The enterprising international graduate college will be hosting lectures, dance, drama, music an exhibition and a cookery demonstration in India Week between 6 and 12 June.
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Call for outstanding Indian graduates to apply for Pavate Fellowships
19 May 2010
Under an agreement between The Dr D.C. Pavate Foundation, Karnatak University in Dhawad in the state of Karnataka, southern India, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, outstanding graduates from India under the age of 40 may apply for one of three visiting Fellowships at the University of Cambridge next year.
The Dr D.C. Pavate Fellowships are for a four-month period of study each, with residence at Sidney Sussex College.
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Lecture tours in India as new scheme is launched
25 March 2010
Two senior Cambridge academics have recently returned from lecture tours in India thanks to a newly-launched Scheme supported by distinguished alumnus Dr Yusuf Hamied (pictured).
The Cambridge-Hamied Visiting Lecture Scheme has been established to stimulate exchange of ideas and academic collaboration between India and the University of Cambridge. It is named after its founder Dr Yusuf Hamied, Chairman of Cipla Ltd, India, and an alumnus of the University's Department of Chemistry and Christ's College.
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Cambridge to train police chiefs in India
11 March 2010
The former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, is to co-direct a new training programme for senior police executives in India, led by the University of Cambridge.
The University's Institute of Criminology signed an agreement with the National Police Academy of India today (Thursday, March 11th), under which it will provide mid-career training for 420 police executives.
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Cambridge welcomes Indian High Commissioner
10 March 2010
The High Commissioner of India visited the University of Cambridge last week.
His Excellency Mr Nalin Surie took office at the High Commission in London last September and this was his first visit to Cambridge.
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Home movies chronicling end of Empire released online
4 March 2010
A collection of almost 300 films which offer a unique glimpse of life in India and other parts of South Asia during the final days of the British Empire has been released online.
The archive, which is owned by Cambridge University's Centre of South Asian Studies, will be available from Thursday (March 4th) at http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/films.html, where users will be able to watch and download the footage for free.
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Volunteering opportunities in Delhi next Summer
15 February 2010
Three internships are being offered to Cambridge undergraduates this summer at the British School in New Delhi.
The placements, from 9 August until 3 September 2010, will include free accommodation, staying with host families. Students will need to meet all other costs themselves.
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Manmohan Singh Undergraduate Scholarships announced for 2010
4 February 2010
Three outstanding students from Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai will receive the 2010 Manmohan Singh Undergraduate Scholarship to fund their undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge.
The Manmohan Singh Undergraduate Scholarship programme was established in 2009 in honour of India's Prime Minister who graduated from the University of Cambridge with a First in Economics in the late 1950s, and who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University in 2006.
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Cambridge in partnership with India
1 February 2010
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard, has just returned from a ten-day visit to India on which she led a delegation visiting the cities of Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Mysore, Mumbai and Pune.
She was accompanied by her husband, Professor Robert Dewar, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, Director of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Michael O'Sullivan and Dr Bill Janeway, Co-Chair of the 800th Anniversary Campaign.
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Cambridge set to play historic cricket match in India
4 January 2010
Cricketers from Cambridge University jet off to India on Wednesday for their first ever tour of the country.
The trip has been arranged to coincide with the visit of the Vice-Chancellor, Alison Richard, who is leading a delegation to strengthen historic links between the university and the sub-continent nation.
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Cambridge V-C reaffirms partnership with India on third official visit
4 January 2010
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard, will lead a delegation to India this week for her third extensive visit.
Between 7 and 17 January 2010 the Vice-Chancellor and her delegation will travel to Kolkata, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and, for the first time, Pune.
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South Asian oral history archive goes online
5 December 2009
A unique collection of hundreds of interviews with people who witnessed Indian independence and the final days of the British Raj is being put online.
The oral history archive, held at Cambridge University, features more than 300 recordings, including first-hand accounts of meetings with Mahatma Gandhi and testimonies by freedom fighters whose terrorist acts aimed to force an end to British rule.
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Cambridge academics showcase expertise at World Economic Forum - India
6 November 2009
Two of Judge Business School's leading minds will take part in the World Economic Forum Summit to be held in Delhi this week 8 to 10 November.
Navi Radjou, Executive Director, Centre for India & Global Business at Judge and Shailendra Vyakarnam, Director for the Centre for Entreprenuerial Learning at Judge have both been invited to contribute to sessions at the event which will attract business leaders from across the world to discuss India's next generation of growth.
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University's growing relationship with Sikh community celebrated
3 November 2009
Marking the growing partnerships between the University and Sikhs, Professor Martin Daunton (pictured), Master of Trinity Hall, and Professor of History, was invited to speak to the Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara in Hounslow, West London.
He was guest at the annual celebration of the birthday of the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak, one of the most significant dates in the calendar year for Sikhs.
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Trinity College Fellow wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7 October 2009
A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Dr Venki Ramakrishnan has won the prestigious honour along with two other scientists for his research into the structure and function of ribosomes. Dr Ramakrishnan, of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, shares the prize with Thomas A Steitz of Yale University and Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
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The Globalisation of Bollywood: Mark, Set, and Go!
25 September 2009
The Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB) at Judge Business School hosted the University of Cambridge's first ever conference entirely focused on the Indian film sector and its rapidly expanding role in the global creative economy.
Titled "Globalisation of Indian Cinema: Opportunities for the West," this by-invitation-only event was hosted by CIGB in partnership with Screen East and the North Screen Partnership, Blood Orange Media and the Cambridge Film Trust.
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Visiting Fellowships for Indian academics
27 July 2009
Outstanding graduates from India under the age of 45 may apply for one of three visiting Fellowships at the University of Cambridge, with residence at Sidney Sussex College, next year.
The Dr D.C. Pavate Fellowships are for a four-month period of study each at Judge Business School, the Centre for International Studies and either the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) or the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.
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Industrial Jewels in India's Crown
27 July 2009
Students from the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) have just returned from a fact-finding tour of India.
Mukesh Kumar, a research student in international manufacturing, was one of 37 students to take part. The trip took in more than 20 of India's leading manufacturing companies, industrial associations and support agencies in just 12 days.
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Scholarship agreement signed for Sikh graduate students
23 July 2009
The University played host this week to a group of eminent Sikhs from Punjab, who gathered to mark the signing of a scholarship agreement between the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
The agreement, which will commence in 2010, will enable up to five outstanding Sikh students to pursue a Masters degree or PhD at Cambridge, in subjects relevant to the development of higher education in Punjab.
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Graduates off to work on community projects in India
3 July 2009
Five students who have just graduated from Cambridge have arrived in India to spend the next seven weeks working on community development projects.
They have been selected to join an international student internship programme run by India's most respected business house.
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Cambridge students embark on passage to India
29 June 2009
The emerging industrial power of India is to become the focus for students at the Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).
A group of around 40 Manufacturing Engineering students set off for India today on a summer study tour.
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Former President of India to speak at Judge Business School
5 June 2009
The former President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam, will address an invited audience of students, academics and practitioners at Judge Business School next Tuesday 9 June as a guest of the School's Centre for India & Global Business.
Dr Kalam will provide an overview of the dramatic socio-economic and technological shifts occurring worldwide, the new leadership style required to navigate it and how the centre of geopolitical and economic gravity is irreversibly shifting from West to East.
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Leading Indian materials scientist at prestigious Cambridge forum
5 June 2009
A lecture by one of India's most distinguished scientists will be the highlight of this year's Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum, to be hosted by the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy next Tuesday 9 June.
Professor C.N.R. Rao FRS, National Research Professor, Linus Pauling Research Professor and Honorary President of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, will give the 11th Kelly Lecture at 5.30pm.
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International workshop on Sanskrit and Tamil in Mediaeval India
21 May 2009
Participants from around the world will be travelling to Cambridge this weekend for a workshop on the relationship between Sanskrit and Tamil in mediaeval India.
The workshop, which will be held at Wolfson College, has been organised by Dr Vincenzo Vergiani of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Whitney Cox of London University's School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Indian students selected for Gates Cambridge Scholarships
7 May 2009
Six Indian students have won prestigious Gates Scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge.
The six are among 90 students from 32 countries around the world who have been selected from a field of over 6,700 applicants.
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Innovation in India and China
5 May 2009
The Director of IBM India Research Lab, discussing how Indian farmers are using mobile phones to improve their daily lives, and an Assistant Vice President from Sotheby's New York, explaining why some Indian contemporary paintings have fetched millions of pounds in recent auctions, will be in Cambridge later this month as part of a compelling two-day seminar hosted by Judge Business School.
A stellar range of speakers will take the stage to explore the rise of India and China as both fast-growing global markets and world-class sources of innovation.
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One of India's most successful high profile business leaders of recent times will be speaking at Judge Business School this Friday as part of the India Talks Series.
Hosted by the Centre for India and Global Business, Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman and co-founder of Infosys Technologies in India will be speaking following publication of his new book, Imagining India.
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Christ's officially opens Yusuf Hamied Centre
20 April 2009
Leading University academics, business leaders, and fellows, students and staff of Christ's College gathered there on Saturday for the official opening of the Yusuf Hamied Centre.
The new theatre with its associated public rooms incorporating bar, music practice room and gym is the result of a generous donation by Dr Yusuf Hamied who's recently been elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in recognition of his contribution to the pharmaceutical industry and his provision of affordable drugs to the third world.
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Cambridge launches Centre for India & Global Business
10 March 2009
Judge Business School will launch the Centre for India & Global Business today at an event in New Delhi.
Professor Jaideep Prabhu (pictured), the first Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the University of Cambridge, gave the first of four inaugural lectures in the Indian capital today, before moving on to Bangalore and then Mumbai.
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University of Cambridge and Infosys Sign MoU for Collaborative Research Ventures
4 February 2009
The University of Cambridge and Infosys Technologies Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pave the way for collaborative research ventures in the areas of engineering, management and business, architecture and pharma.
The MoU was signed by Mr Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board, Infosys Technologies and Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge, at the company's Bangalore headquarters during her visit to India last month.
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Celebrating the Cambridge India partnership
29 January 2009
When Professor Alison Richard rang a handbell at an alumni gathering in Mumbai on Saturday 17 January she was celebrating the start of the University's 800th anniversary year but also the culmination of a busy ten-day visit to India.
The Vice-Chancellor and colleagues returned to the four Indian cities of Kolkata, New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai.
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University of Cambridge to launch Manmohan Singh Undergraduate Scholarship
12 January 2009
The University of Cambridge will establish a new scholarship programme in honour of India's Prime Minister. The Manmohan Singh Undergraduate Scholarship programme will enable more Indian students to study at Cambridge and was announced today in New Delhi by Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard. Professor Richard has returned to India following her visit last January.
The Manmohan Singh Scholarships will provide full funding, covering fees and means-tested maintenance, for undergraduate study at the University of Cambridge. As the programme develops there are expected to be up to ten Manmohan Singh undergraduate scholars studying at the University at any one time. More than £1.5 million has already been committed to support the scholarships over the long term.
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Vice-Chancellor to make return visit to India to celebrate partnership
4 January 2009
Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, will make a ten day return visit to India travelling to Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai at the very start of the University's Octocentenary year from 8 to 18 January 2009.
The visit will build on the success of the visit last January, strengthening and celebrating important bonds with alumni, higher education and business, and celebrating the Cambridge India Partnership.
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Respected Memsahibs - new book
10 December 2008
A reception was held this week in the President's Lodge, Wolfson College, to mark the publication of Respected Memsahibs, an anthology compiled by Mary Thatcher from the archive collection in the University's Centre of South Asian Studies.
The anthology draws on the letters, memoirs and narratives of nineteen women who lived and worked in India in between the First World War and Independence in 1947. The collection forms an exceptional record of life and work in the latter days of the British Raj.
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Symposium at Christ's College to celebrate a genius
27 November 2008
One of India's most remarkable academics, Sir Jagadis Chandra Bhose, was born in 1858 in Bengal.
Next week the High Commissioner of India His Excellency Shiv Shankar Mukherjee will be guest of honour at a special symposium at Christ's College to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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Social entrepreneurship in India - another student's account
27 November 2008
Downing College Natural Sciences graduate Grant Jackson gives his account of his experience on the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme last Summer.
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Cambridge students pursue social entrepreneurship in India
26 November 2008
Four students flew out to India in July as the first Cambridge participants in an international student internship programme launched last January by India's largest business conglomerate.
The University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, signed MOUs with Tata Sons in January this year to take part in the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme (TISES).
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Tata Steel Group endows professorship in metallurgy
24 November 2008
A major gift from one of the world's foremost industrial groups will support fundamental and far-reaching research into one of the modern world's most sustainable and indispensable materials.
Tata Steel has announced the donation to endow a Professorship of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
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St John's College scholarships for Indian graduate students
5 November 2008
St. John's College has released details of the next round of prestigious 'Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships', the programme which was launched at the Indian Prime Minister's residence in New Delhi last year.
The scholarship programme has been set up exclusively for Indian students who are currently based in India, for PhD and MPhil-level study at St John's College, Cambridge in areas such as science, technology and social sciences.
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India Talks
16 October 2008
A senior figure from one of India's most innovative companies will be speaking at Judge Business School this Friday lunchtime in the first of a series of seminars launched by the new Centre for Indian Business.
'India Talks' will feature leaders of Indian firms and firms from elsewhere with an interest in India, as well as India-related policy makers and academics.
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First Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships named at St John's College, Cambridge
22 July 2008
Three outstanding Indian students will begin study for their doctoral degrees at St John's College, Cambridge this September as winners of the first Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships.
The scholarship programme, announced in New Delhi last November, has been set up in honour of the Indian Prime Minister who is a graduate and Honorary Fellow of St John's College, having gained a First in Economics there in the late 50s.
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Cambridge students start work on community projects in India
11 July 2008
Four students flew out to India last week as the first Cambridge participants in an international student internship programme launched last January by India's largest business conglomerate.
The University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, signed MOUs with the Tata Group in January this year to take part in the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme (TISES).
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Vice-Chancellor introduces the Nehru Memorial Lecture
21 May 2008
Professor Alison Richard was in London last night to introduce the 2008 Nehru Memorial Lecture at the Nehru Centre, the cultural wing of the High Commission of India in London. The main Nehru Memorial Lecture, entitled 'The India Growth Story: Challenges of a pluralist democracy', was given by Minister Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry in the Indian Government. He is a distinguished practitioner and commentator on law, economic reform and international affairs.
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History-defining novel translated
7 May 2008
The novel that defined India's national song and inspired a whole generation of freedom fighters over a century ago has been translated by a Faculty of Divinity scholar. Professor Julius Lipner's recent work is the only complete English translation of 'Anandamath, or the Sacred Brotherhood,' a novel penned by author, poet and journalist Bankimcandra Chatterji in 1882. For his work, Prof Lipner received the 2008 A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation.
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Appointment of the first Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Cambridge
2 May 2008
Professor Jaideep Prabhu has been appointed the first Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at the University of Cambridge. The Professorship, funded by a £3.2 million grant from the Government of India, is to be based in the Judge Business School and attached to the Cambridge Centre for Indian Business, newly established with financial support from the BP Foundation.
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Doing business in India
24 April 2008
Dame Sandra Dawson, Master of Sidney Sussex College and KPMG Professor of Management Studies, Judge Business School was in London this morning for a breakfast meeting at the House of Commons to discuss the UK's developing business relations with India. Hosted by Alderman David Lewis, the Lord Mayor of London, the breakfast meeting was attended by senior parliamentarians, representatives of the public and private sector bodies engaged in the Indian market and relevant senior 'stakeholders'.
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IIT Bombay and Cambridge sign MOU with initial focus on Nanoscience
15 April 2008
The signing of a joint Memorandum of Understanding paves the way for numerous future research collaborations and exchanges of students and staff between the University of Cambridge and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). Professor Alan Windle was in Mumbai yesterday, on behalf of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard, to present the Memorandum for signing by Professor Ashok Misra, Director, IIT Bombay.
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Cambridge and India in Partnership
21 January 2008
A wide-ranging delegation of University of Cambridge academics has just returned from an unprecedented two-week visit to India. The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard and more than 20 senior colleagues were in India travelling to New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai.
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Launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru Professorship of Indian Business and Enterprise
3 January 2008
Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard today announced, at a press conference in New Delhi, the launch of the 'Jawaharlal Nehru Professorship of Indian Business and Enterprise'. The Professorship, in the Judge Business School, has been set up with a fund of £3.2 million, a contribution made by the Government of India to celebrate the centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru's arrival at Trinity College Cambridge, where he studied for a degree in Natural Sciences before going on to become India's first Prime Minister.
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Prestigious Indian honour for Cambridge scientist
14 December 2007
A leading cancer scientist at the University of Cambridge is to receive this year's medical research award from the charitable foundation of India's largest pharmaceutical company. The Ranbaxy Foundation has recognised the work of Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, a specialist on the genetic basis of cancer. He has been singled out for work which has uncovered how mutations in certain genes can make people more susceptible to cancer.
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St John's College announces prestigious scholarships for Indian students
28 November 2007
£35,000 scholarship per student set up in honour of the Prime Minister of India exclusively for Indian students to read for PhD & MPhil degrees in science, technology and social sciences at the University of Cambridge. St. John's College, Cambridge yesterday announced the prestigious 'Dr. Manmohan Singh Scholarships' at the residence of Dr. Manmohan Singh, Honourable Prime Minister of India. The scholarship programme has been set up exclusively for Indian students to read for PhD & MPhil degrees at St John's College in areas such as science, technology and social sciences.
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