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La Trobe Institute of India and South Asia and India Focus Group
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2003
Professor Robin Jeffrey delivers the Luthra Memorial Lecture at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University on 14 February 2003. The lecture honours Dr Sunder Mohini Luthra, principal of LSR College from 1968-87. La Trobe University and LSR College have a flourishing student-exchange agreement.
Chisholm College La Trobe/Delhi University Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences (March 26, 2003)
This project aims to generate and foster strong academic links between La Trobe University and Delhi University, in the area of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS). Building on La Trobe’s research and teaching strengths in South Asian Studies in particular and in the Faculty more generally, and drawing on Chisholm College’s participation over the last six years in a graduate exchange program with the prestigious Lady Shri Ram College of Delhi University, the time is now right to extend our academic links in HUSS with Delhi University at every level.
La Trobe Student Wins Two Full Scholarships
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Digitizing Rare and Seminal Colonial Documents
Melbourne (17 March 2003) - La Trobe is part of an ARC Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Fund (LIEF) project, which aims to build on work already done at La Trobe University in putting the first Indian census reports, dating from the 1870s, in digital form on the WWW. In the current phase of the project, involving La Trobe, Curtin, Sydney and New England universities, we aim to mount up to a dozen crucial documents from 19th century India. The virtues of the project are that it makes available, in now-searchable form, documents that may exist in only a few places in the world. We are also establishing technical and scholarly standards for work of this kind, and thereby making future efforts quicker, easier and more effective.
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1968
Indira Gandhi's Visit
From left: Mrs Gandhi, Acting Chief Librarian Jeffrey Scrivener, Anne Weiler, Dominic Fernandez (on secondment from Bombay) and Pam Longley who was part of a delegation of Australian librarians to India in 1997.
One of the early signatories of La Trobe University's book of distinguished visitors was Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi in May 1968.
When La Trobe University was founded in 1967, it hired a number of scholars from India or with special interests in India.
Subjects about India and South Asia have always been taught at La Trobe, hundreds of undergraduates have studied them, dozens of postgraduates have researched theses about India, and La Trobe scholars have written scores of books and papers about India.
As a result, the Borchardt Library has built an India-related collection, which is perhaps the best in Australia.
 Sir Arch Glenn, Chancellor, La Trobe University, receiving Mrs Indira Gandhi in May 1968 during her visit to La Trobe.
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