Center for the Advanced Study of India
Encyclopedia
The Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) is a research center on contemporary India
at the University of Pennsylvania
. The center collaborates with other institutions in the USA, India, and elsewhere to carry out its goals of nurturing a new generation of scholars across disciplines and providing a forum for dialogue among the academic, business, and foreign policy
communities.
It was founded in 1992 by Dr Francine R. Frankel, a scholar of the political economy and economic history of India
. She has also written about Indo-US and Sino-Indian relations
. The revised edition of Dr Frankel's study, India's Political Economy, was published in 2005. In 2006, Dr Devesh Kapur became the center's director. Dr Kapur has worked on issues of human capital
, national and international public institutions, and the ways in which local-global linkages affect political and economic change in developing countries.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
. The center collaborates with other institutions in the USA, India, and elsewhere to carry out its goals of nurturing a new generation of scholars across disciplines and providing a forum for dialogue among the academic, business, and foreign policy
Foreign policy
A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...
communities.
It was founded in 1992 by Dr Francine R. Frankel, a scholar of the political economy and economic history of India
Economic history of India
The known Economic history of India begins with the Indus Valley civilization. The Indus civilization's economy appears to have depended significantly on trade, which was facilitated by advances in transport. Around 600 BC, the Mahajanapadas minted punch-marked silver coins. The period was marked...
. She has also written about Indo-US and Sino-Indian relations
Sino-Indian relations
Sino-Indian relations, also called Indo-China relations, refers to the bilateral relationship between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India. China and India are the world's most populous states and also fastest growing major economies...
. The revised edition of Dr Frankel's study, India's Political Economy, was published in 2005. In 2006, Dr Devesh Kapur became the center's director. Dr Kapur has worked on issues of human capital
Human capital
Human capitalis the stock of competencies, knowledge and personality attributes embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value. It is the attributes gained by a worker through education and experience...
, national and international public institutions, and the ways in which local-global linkages affect political and economic change in developing countries.