The Department of African Studies, University of Delhi

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Members of the African Studies Association may be interested to know something about the Department of African Studies at the University of Delhi, which I visited last fall. This is the only African studies program in India; it was established in 1955 at the instance of the Government of India following a rapid increase in interest among Indians in political ana racial affairs in Africa. The prospectus for the Department states that it was established “in order that India might have a centre for the study of Africa—her history and culture and arts, her social institutions and her languages, her politics, her race relations and her other problems, her economics and her geography. It is intended that at this centre facilities shall be provided for research as well as for the stuay of particular courses leading to tne conferment of certificates, diplomas and aegrees.