University of Wisconsin-Madison India Initiative

Sponsored by the Division of International Studies, in collaboration with the Center for South Asia, the Wisconsin Alumni Association, and the University of Wisconsin Foundation.
About the India Initiative

Established in 2007, the India Initiative brings together faculty, alumni, and friends to support, enhance, and increase awareness about India’s arts, cultures, economy, history, religions and society.

Through collaboration with diverse departments and programs, and with support from alumni and friends, the India Initiative highlights scholarship and outreach efforts and facilitates new programs to help us better understand and engage with India’s rising global prominence in such diverse fields as medicine, journalism, economy and industry, engineering, biotechnology, and law.

Recognizing the importance of India to the economic and political future of Wisconsin and the United States, this enhanced collaboration with and dissemination about India will benefit Wisconsin’s businesses and citizens as a whole.
With this new partnership between the Division of International Studies, the Center for South Asia, WAA, and the UW Foundation, an even greater level of research, teaching, study abroad, faculty exchanges, and outreach will assemble a much wider range of disciplines and achieve a higher level of focus on India than ever before.