As Scholars Accuse IIAS of Opaque Practices, Chairperson and Director Go Head to Head
In the last two years, a record number of fellowships have been terminated, leading to allegations of favouritism and a shoddy review process from the fellows and a full-blown war between the instituteâs highest figures of authority.
The IIAS campus in Shimla. Photo: Simbu123/Wikimedia Commons
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New Delhi: In 1965, M.C. Chagla, the then Union minister of education, celebrated the conversion of Shimlaâs erstwhile viceregal lodge into the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS). It was intended to be a unique institution of scholarship and research that would have âno curricula, no course of studies, no faculties, no examinationâ and no conferment of degrees.