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University Archives and Records Center
Guide to the UPB 1.9 SA
40 Cubic ft. Prepared by Robert Nichols
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INTRODUCTION
The University of Pennsylvania Archives hold documents detailing the 20th century development of South Asia studies in the United States. Two categories of Penn related papers are in the Archives.
The Department of South Asia Regional Studies dates to a preliminary summer program in 1947 and a full program of study initiated in 1949-50. This collection, the Department of South Asia Regional Studies Records, consists of materials dating from the 1940s to the 1980s. Administrative files include grant and Foundation paperwork, student and faculty records, South Asia Seminar documents, and routine yearly budgets.
The second group of documents relating to the development of South Asia studies is the collection of personal papers of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892-1975), eminent Sanskritist and organizer of the first South Asia area studies program in the U.S. These papers include personal and scholarly correspondence, lecture notes, drafts and completed papers, and materials related to research, archeology, travel, and government service.
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