Inauguration of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study Vision of the Founding Fathers*

Abstract

The idea of gifting the premises of the Rashtrapati Niwas, the former Viceregal Lodge, at Shimla, to the Indian Institute of Advanced Study was conceived by Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, when he was the President of India, in dialogue with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru . Subsequently, on t h e 6th of October,l964, the liAS Society was registered under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860. Dr. Zakir Hussain, Vice-President of India, was its first President and M.C.Chagla, Union Minister of Education, its first Vice-President.