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India and the University of Cambridge moving forward together Front cover Faculty of Law, Cambridge Cambridge education is shared by many students. We have been welcoming Indian students for 150 years, with steadily increasing numbers in recent times. More than 1,000 Indian students have received financial support from Cambridge in the last two decades. P ROFESSOR A LISON R ICHARD V ICE -C HANCELLOR , U NIVERSITYOF C AMBRIDGE We will be delighted to hear from you. 1
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Dr Shailaja Fennell cycles over Magdalene Bridge, Cambridge. Educated at the University
of Delhi, she took a PhD at Cambridge, where she is now a University Lecturer in
Development Studies and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her work has examined long-term
trends in cereal production in India, and she is currently researching public-private
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on, to grasp, or to comprehend it. It is possible to explain or to listen to this
perfection of wisdom by its appearance, characteristics and distinctive features?”
Astasahasrikaprajnaparamita 177
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Front cover Faculty of Law, Cambridge
Booklet written by Alexandra Buxton
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE has been home to some of the
world’s great minds, and a crucible for fundamental, world-
changing discoveries.
But we cannot and do not work alone: we take seriously our
relationships with the wider world. Academics and students
from India have helped Cambridge grow into the global
presence that it is today, and we seek now to deepen and
broaden the partnership between Cambridge and India for
the years to come.
The pages of this brochure offer a glimpse of modern
Cambridge, with all its diversity and energy, and highlight
the major contributions that Indian minds have made and
are making to Cambridge – in the hope of inspiring you to
join us in the pursuit of our shared ambitions.
“In many ways, Cambridge made me.” This recognition of the
transformative quality of education at Cambridge came from
the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, when he spoke at
the ceremony awarding him a Cambridge Honorary Doctorate
in October 2006. We hope that Dr Singh’s appreciation of his
Moving forward together INTRODUCTION BY THE VICE-CHANCELLOR
Cambridge education is shared by many students. We have
been welcoming Indian students for 150 years, with steadily
increasing numbers in recent times. More than 1,000 Indian
students have received financial support from Cambridge in
the last two decades.
Increasingly, boundaries at Cambridge exist to be crossed!
Interdisciplinary teaching and research flourish – from the
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities,
to Cambridge Neuroscience, launched this autumn, which
brings together over 500 academics from 30 departments.
But Cambridge crosses other kinds of boundary too. The
University and the private sector have collaborated for 40
years, producing the Cambridge Phenomenon, or ‘Silicon Fen’.
Nokia, Kodak and Genzyme have all recently decided to locate
major research labs in Cambridge, joining Microsoft Research,
Schlumberger, Toshiba and Hitachi, and I am proud that
Cambridge has attracted more venture capital to its start-up
businesses in the last five years than any other university in the United Kingdom. In short, Cambridge crackles with
entrepreneurial excitement and activity, as new discoveries
are put to use for the benefit of society.
Boundary-crossing in the geographical sense is at the heart
of this brochure. No single nation, let alone a single university,
can solve many of the world’s great challenges, whether the
issue is climate change, religious conflict, poverty or contagious
disease. Cambridge and India already work together – and I
am confident that we shall do so more and more.
Please get in touch using the flap at the back of this brochure.
You may be an academic, an investor or company who would
like to hear about our research; a student looking for the best
university for your graduate research; or an alumnus wishing to
contact old friends and to learn more about what’s going on at
Cambridge today.
We will be delighted to hear from you.
PROFESSOR ALISON RICHARD
VICE-CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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150 years of connectionsIndian alumni of Cambridge
For more than 150 years the University of Cambridge has attracted scholars
from India. Many of India’s leading figures – academics, scientists, industrialists
and politicians – have enjoyed a Cambridge education. Here are examples of
just a few of the eminent Indians who studied at Cambridge
The sportsman and reformer
Prince Ranjitsinhji, Trinity
College 1888–1891
is considered one of the
greatest cricketers of all time
and played for Sussex and
England. In India, he did much
to improve conditions in his
home state of Nawanagar.
The industrialist
Sir Dorabji Tata, Gonville and
Caius College 1877–1879
played a key role in the
development of the Tata
Group, especially in the
steel and power sectors. In
1920 he made a substantial
donation towards a new
building for the Department
of Engineering at Cambridge.
The mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Trinity
College 1913–1918 was largely
self-taught. Ramanujan’s
genius in mathematics came
to the notice of Cambridge
mathematician GH Hardy, who
invited him to the University.
He was the second Indian to
be elected as a Fellow of the
Royal Society.
The prime ministers
Three Indian prime ministers
studied at Cambridge.
Jawaharlal Nehru, Trinity
College 1907–1910
was India’s first prime minister.
Rajiv Gandhi, Trinity College
1961–1964 studied at Imperial
College, London, and
Cambridge. His son,
Rahul Gandhi, studied at Trinity
in the 1990s, gaining an MPhil
in Development Economics.
Dr Manmohan Singh, St John’s
College 1955–1957 won a
scholarship to Cambridge while
at Punjab University. He studied
economics in 1955, taking his
finals after less than two years
and gaining the only First in
economics that year.
Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan
Singh is congratulated by Professor
Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge on his
receipt of an honorary degree from the
University in 2006.
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The economist
Amartya Sen, Trinity College
1957–1963, 1998–2004
Nobel prize-winning econo-
mist, was an undergraduate
and graduate student at Trinity,
later becoming Master. His
reputation is based on studies
of famine, human development
theory and welfare economics.
He plays a key role in the
debate on globalisation.
The businesswoman
Camellia Panjabi, Newnham
College 1961–1963
came to Cambridge to read
economics, as did her sister
Namita Panjabi. She became
marketing director of Taj Hotels.
She and Namita are directors
of Masala World, which owns
businesses that include the
Bombay Brasserie, London.
The entrepeneur
Lord Karan Bilimoria, Sidney
Sussex College, 1985–1988
is founder of Cobra Beer. He
was founding chairman of
the Indo British Partnership
Network. One of the first
Visiting Entrepreneurs
appointed at Cambridge, he
serves as National Champion
for the National Council for
Graduate Entrepreneurship. In
2007 he was made an
Honorary Fellow of Sidney
Sussex College.
The poet
Harivansh Rai Bachchan,
St Catharine’s College
1955–1957
was the Hindi poet best known
for his lyric poem Madhushala.
The first Indian to obtain a
PhD in English at Cambridge,
he is father of the Bollywood
superstar, Amitabh Bachchan,
and grandfather of
Abhishek Bachchan.
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THE UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT POPULATION is drawn from the brightest
school and college leavers. The education they receive is first
class: students learn from world-leaders in their subject; the
collegiate structure creates a strong sense of community; and
the ‘supervision’ system means undergraduates receive
personal tuition.
In recent years, at any one time there have been around 170
students from India (70 undergraduate and 100 postgraduate)
studying at Cambridge. Approximately half of them are
supported by scholarship and bursary schemes administered
by the Cambridge Trusts.
Many of the well-established and up-and-coming academics
featured in this booklet studied at Cambridge with support from
schemes run by the Cambridge Trusts.
The founding director of the Cambridge Trusts is Dr Anil Seal,
Fellow of Trinity College and historian of modern India and
imperialism and colonial nationalism.
Since 1982, the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust has enabled
almost 1,000 students from India to study at Cambridge. In
2007–08, the Trust made awards to 66 Indian scholars. It also
offers Rajiv Gandhi Travelling Scholarships to Cambridge
University students wishing to visit India.
In addition, a programme of Gates Cambridge Scholarships was
established in 2000 with the first cohort of scholars taking up
their places at Cambridge in October 2001. To date there have
been 45 Gates Cambridge Scholars from India.
International students at Cambridgepersonal tuition, college life
Around one in five Cambridge students are from outside the UK, and about one
in ten from outside Europe. Many overseas students, including those from India,
are supported by bursaries from the Cambridge Trusts
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DR JAJINI VARGHESE
“A CAMBRIDGE EDUCATION IS AN EXCELLENT
TICKET TO A DIVERSE CAREER”
DR JAJINI VARGHESE IS STUDYING for a PhD on breast cancer at the
University of Cambridge. She qualified as a doctor in
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, winning a Commonwealth Shared
Scholarship to take the MPhil in genetic epidemiology at
Cambridge. This was funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship
Commission and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust with
partial support from the Hinduja Commonwealth Trust.
She has secured a Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Scholarship
from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and an Overseas
Research Scholarship (ORS) to continue her work under cancer
scientists Professors Doug Easton and Bruce Ponder. Dr Varghese
plans to return to India to pursue a dual career in clinical
practice and academic research.
Jajini says: “Being part of an international group at Cambridge,
I am benefiting from an ideal atmosphere for the most creative
years of my life. A Cambridge education is an excellent ticket to
a diverse career.”
SUSHIL SAIGAL
“I HOPE TO USE MY TRAINING TO ADDRESS
THE PRESSING CHALLENGES FACING MY COUNTRY”
SUSHIL SAIGAL IS STUDYING for a PhD in political ecology at
Cambridge. His MPhil year was funded by a Shell Centenary
Scholarship, offered in collaboration with the Cambridge
Commonwealth Trust. He won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
and an Overseas Research Scholarship to enable him to take
a PhD under Dr Bhaskar Vira (see page 19).
Before coming to Cambridge, Sushil studied forestry at the
Indian Institute of Forestry Management, Bhopal, and the
University of Oxford. For his PhD he is studying forestry
cooperatives in India to identify ways of meeting environment
and development goals through community-based resource
management. On completing his PhD, he plans to return to
India and work in development and environment.
He says: “I hope to use my training to address the pressing
challenges facing my country.”
In November 2007 St John’s College, Cambridge, announced the foundation of the Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships
which will support three Indian PhD students at Cambridge in 2008–09. Sponsors include Rolls Royce India,
BP Foundation and the Tata Group.
Cambridge economist, Dr Sriya Iyer
gives a supervision to students of
development economics in her study in
St Catharine’s College. Dr Iyer originally
came to Cambridge with funding from
the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
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CAMBRIDGE IS A WORLD LEADER in biomedical sciences. Many
names synonymous with advances that helped unravel the
mechanisms of life worked at Cambridge: William Harvey
(circulation of the blood), Charles Darwin (natural selection),
Hans Krebs (citric acid cycle), Fred Sanger (structure of insulin),
Francis Crick and James Watson (structure of DNA) and John
Sulston (human genome sequencing).
The spirit of enquiry that fuelled these pioneering scientists
continues to drive the work in departments and specialist
centres across the University today. Many Cambridge-educated
scientists move into blue-sky research that breaks the
boundaries of knowledge; others form spin-off enterprises
that transform laboratory-based discoveries into therapeutic
applications.
The spirit of enquiry that fuelled the earlypioneers continues to drive the work indepartments and centres across the University
STEM CELLS
Research on stem cells – the ‘building blocks’ for every type of
cell in the body – promises to lead to the development of
innovative treatments for major diseases such as diabetes,
cancer, and heart and blood disorders.
The discovery of the unique properties of stem cells took place
in the Department of Genetics at Cambridge in the 1980s – a
breakthrough that led to the principal researcher, Professor Sir
Martin Evans, winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2007.
The current Cambridge groups led by Professors Azim Surani,
Austin Smith, Roger Pedersen and Fiona Watt attract first-class
minds from all over the world, including young scientists from
India who are on track to make a contribution that will save
many lives.
NEUROSCIENCE
Some of the most exciting science emerges from Cambridge’s
inter-disciplinary approach – the bringing together of specialists
to cross fertilise ideas. This is particularly true in neuroscience
which draws on a wide range of disciplines – from anthropology
through to zoology. In 2007 more than 500 Cambridge
researchers from 30 different departments and centres formed
Cambridge Neuroscience, a forum set up to unravel the
complexities of the brain.
Long-term benefits to society of the Cambridge Neuroscience
initiative include the translation of research findings from basic
science to enhanced clinical care, and thus better health and
quality of life for millions of people.
DRUG DISCOVERY
Biomedical research gives scientists the platform to create
sophisticated new drugs that will act with great precision.
Research into monoclonal antibodies – discovered in
Cambridge by George Kohler and Cesar Milstein – has
revolutionised treatments for cancer. These are the so-called
‘next generation’ treatments for life-threatening conditions.
An explosion in understanding of the molecular circuits
controlling normal and diseased cells has identified many
potential targets for the latest medicines. A multidisciplinary
initiative, the Cambridge Molecular Therapeutics Programme
(CMPT), directed by Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Professor
Sir Tom Blundell, seeks to pioneer methods for the discovery
and development of next-generation drugs.
CMTP brings together expertise in physical, chemical and
biomedical sciences to develop novel approaches to drug
discovery. The programme welcomes partnerships with
commercial collaborators.
Saving liveslife sciences, medical advances
Research at Cambridge has advanced our understanding of the mechanisms
of life, and increased our hopes of curing major diseases
Professor Azim Surani shares his
enthusiasm for biomedical research in
a laboratory at the Gurdon Institute,
one of the world’s leading centres of
stem cell research. Work by Professor
Surani and his team contributes to the
development of new treatments for
degenerative diseases.
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Professor Shankar Balasubramanian
Professor Michael Bate
Dr David Summers
Professor Ashok Venkitaraman
*The links in this section, and those that follow, represent a selection of many.
THE INDIAN CONNECTION *
Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry at Cambridge.
Expertise: enzyme mechanism; early stage drug discovery;
Astex Therapeutics spin-out founded with Professor Sir Tom
Blundell and Dr Harren Jhoti. Indian links: research collaboration
into new TB treatments with AstraZeneca R&D in Bangalore.
Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, Department of
Chemistry, Cambridge. Expertise: research group into nucleic
acids; invented DNA sequencing technology commercialised as
a spin-out company, Solexa Ltd. Indian links: hosts researchers
from India.
Professor Michael Bate and Dr Matthias Landgraf, Neural
Network Development Group, Department of Zoology,
Cambridge. Expertise: research to show how coordinated
movement is genetically specified.
Indian links: collaboration with groups at Tata Institute for
Fundamental Research, Bombay and National Centre for
Biological Sciences, Bangalore.
Professor Sir Tom Blundell, Department of Biochemistry,
Cambridge. Expertise: structural biology and bioinformatics.
Indian links: collaboration with Indian scientists including
Professor M Vijayan, formerly at Indian Institute for Science (IISc),
Bangalore; working with Astra Zeneca India through EU
collaboration on drug discovery for TB; Professor Blundell is a
Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
Dr Siddharthan Chandran, Department of Clinical
Neurosciences, Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge.
Expertise: novel reparative strategies for neurological diseases.
Indian links: member of Royal Society Frontiers of Science
group; speaker at symposia in India; looking to develop
collaborations in stem cells and regenerative neurology.
Professor David Menon, Department of Medicine,
Cambridge. Expertise: understanding the mechanisms and
effects of traumatic brain injury; established Neurosciences
Critical Care Institute, Cambridge.
Indian links: Department has clinical fellows/registrars from
medical schools in India; hosts Indian PhD students.
Dr David Summers, Department of Genetics, Cambridge.
Expertise: development of recombinant proteins,
potential applications in treatments for HIV patients.
Indian links: collaboration with Dr K J Mukherjee at Jawaharlal
Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi.
Professor Azim Surani, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK
Gurdon Institute, Cambridge. Expertise: stem cell research to
discover treatments for degenerative diseases.
Indian links: Professor Surani is Sir Dorabji Tata Distinguished
Professor at the National Centre of Biological Sciences and
Distinguished Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore.
Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Director of the
Medical Research Council’s Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge.
Expertise: genetic factors of cancer cells. With Professor Sir
Tom Blundell, Professor Venkitaraman has established the
Cambridge Molecular Therapeutics Programme (see DRUG
DISCOVERY above). Indian links: Christian Medical College &
Hospital, Vellore.
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CAREFULLY STORED IN THE WREN LIBRARY at Trinity College, Cambridge
is a first edition of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton, the farmer’s son who
discovered the laws of gravity, acceleration and reciprocal
action. It includes annotated corrections, in Newton’s own
handwriting, for the second edition.
Cambridge has one of the greatestconcentrations of mathematicians and physicists in the world
Newton’s successors at Cambridge include Charles Babbage,
who planned to create a ‘mechanical difference engine’ – now
seen as the world’s first computer – JJ Thomson, who
discovered the electron, and Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, who
demonstrated wireless communication using radio waves two
years before Marconi.
Today Cambridge has one of the greatest concentrations
of mathematicians and physicists in the world. They include
Professor Stephen Hawking, the world’s most famous
theoretical physicist.
The collective genius of these scientists brings us closer to
questions that have puzzled humanity for millennia: what are
the smallest particles of matter? How did the Universe
originate? What is the nature of space time? Their students share
a fascination for making sense of the Universe and looking ever
deeper into the laws that govern it.
NANOSCIENCE
An expanding area of applied science, nanoscience is the study
of how the arrangement of atoms and molecules (the basic
units of all matter) affects the properties of materials. The aim of
research projects is often to produce new or enhanced
materials or products.
The Cambridge Nanoscience Centre is a multidisciplinary centre
with over 300 researchers, whose work paves the way for a new
generation of supercomputers and improved medical diagnosis
and treatment.
Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group,
Professor Mark Welland has substantial experience in industry
as well as research. Under his leadership, the Centre has signed
a major collaborative project with telecoms company Nokia.
Thinking numbersmathematics and physics
Developing a new generation of supercomputers and exploring the origins of
the universe are just two activities within a wide array of research programmes
underway in the mathematics and physics departments at Cambridge
Professor Andy Parker heads the
Cambridge eScience Centre which,
as part of the EU-IndiaGrid, provides
the IT backbone for major research
projects between the EU and India.
Professor Parker also works at
CERN, the world’s largest particle
physics laboratory.
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QUANTUM THEORY
Quantum mechanics is considered the scientific community’s
most successful physical theory. Scientists at Cambridge
are advancing understanding of the meaning of the theory,
tackling its unification with gravity, and developing its
implications for cosmology.
Quantum computation and quantum cryptology are new
modes of information processing achieved by harnessing
physical phenomena unique to quantum mechanics. The
Centre for Quantum Computation is a group that brings
together mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists
to develop the theory and practical implementation of these
revolutionary applications.
MATHEMATICS
Founded in 1992, the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical
Sciences Institute runs research programmes that attract
renowned mathematical scientists at all stages of their careers
from around the world.
No fewer than 25 Fields Medallists and eight Nobel Prize
winners have taken part in Institute programmes. It is not
surprising, thus, that Andrew Wiles chose the Institute as the
place to unveil his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, which had
eluded mathematicians for over 350 years.
Around 20 Indian researchers visit the Newton Institute each
year to take part in its programmes. Indian mathematicians who
have worked at the Institute as Rothschild Visiting Professors
include Professor T V Ramakrishnan of the Indian Institute of
Sciences, Professor A Sen of the Harish-Chandra Research
Institute and Professor D Dhar of the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research.
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THE INDIAN CONNECTION
UK-INDIAGRID
The Cambridge eScience Centre (CeSC), led by Professor Andy
Parker and based in the Centre of Mathematical Sciences,
offers supercomputing facilities within the EU-IndiaGrid
project. CeSC connects EGEE (European Grid for Enabling
eScience) to GARUDA, the Indian national grid, to support
Cambridge biologists and their Indian collaborators. Examples
include: Dr Karen Lipkow, biologist at Cambridge Systems
Biology Centre, who integrates cellular architecture and
signalling by modelling and experimentation, in collaboration
with Dr Upinder Bhalla at National Centre for Biological
Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore.
UKIERI
Cambridge won five grants for collaborations from the
UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), launched
in 2006 to strengthen educational links between India and
UK, and backed by the UK and Indian governments and BAE,
BP, GSK and Shell. Two grants fall within physical sciences:
❖ Professor Sir Michael Pepper and group, Department
of Physics, Cambridge, is collaborating with Professor
Arindam Ghosh and team at Indian Institute of Science
(IISc), Bangalore, on semiconductor nanostructures for
information processing.
❖ Based at the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre,
Dr Ashwin Seshia is working with Professor G K
Ananthasuresh at IISc Bangalore to develop novel
mechanisms to enhance micro-scale precision
sensing technology.
Dr Stuart Clarke, Cambridge BP Institute.
Expertise: behaviour of molecules at the solid/liquid interface.
Indian links: collaboration with Dr Balasubramanian Sundaram
at Chemistry & Physics of Materials Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore.
Professor Sir Richard Friend, Department of Physics,
Cambridge. Expertise: organic polymers as semiconductors
for wide range of uses, such as LEDS and transistors.
Indian links: collaboration with National Physical Laboratory,
Delhi, and National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.
Dr Dave Green, Department of Physics, Cambridge.
Expertise: radio astronomy. Indian links: collaboration with
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune; joint
discovery of new pulsar using giant meterwave radio
telescope at NCRA.
Professor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics,
Cambridge. Expertise: theoretical condensed matter physics.
Indian links: major collaborator with Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research and IISc Bangalore on novel electronic
materials and theoretical physics.
Professor Ulli Steiner, Department of Physics, Cambridge.
Expertise: stability and structure formation of polymer films.
Indian links: collaboration with Professor Ashutosh Sharma,
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT, Kanpur.
Dr David Tong, Department of Applied Maths and
Theoretical Physics, Cambridge. Expertise: quantum field
theory; string theory. Indian links: collaboration with Professor
Sunil Mukhi at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),
Mumbai, and Harish-Chandran Research Institute, Allahabad.
Professor Bryan Webber, Department of Physics, and
Dr Ben Allanach, Department of Applied Maths and
Theoretical Physics, Cambridge. Expertise: new phenomena
at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Indian links: collaboration
with Dr K Sridhar, Tata Institute, Mumbai.
Professor Mark Welland, Cambridge Nanoscience Centre.
Expertise: nanotechnology. Indian links: working with
Professor Ashok Misra, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Mumbai, to develop joint research programme in
nanomaterials and nanoelectronics.
The Millennium Mathematics Project, award-winning
international educational outreach project, Cambridge,
directed by Professor John Barrow.
Indian links: collaboration with Heymath! online initiative,
Chennai, India.
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Dr Karen Lipkow
Dr Dave Green
Dr Ashwin Seshia
Professor Ulli Steiner
Professor Mark Welland
Professor Bryan Webber
Above right Both staff and graduate
students at Cambridge’s Judge Business
School come from all over the
world and benefit from being part of
the multidisciplinary environment of a
leading university.
Thinking numbersmathematics and physics
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COLLABORATION WITH BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY is an important feature
of the University’s activities. A third of the Department of
Engineering’s research is carried out in collaboration with
industry with many innovative technologies emerging from
joint projects.
At Judge Business School, responsive programmes create
new management skills to meet the challenges arising from
a rapidly changing world. Exciting developments include the
establishment of an exchange programme between Judge
Business School and the Indian School of Business, and
the creation of the Jawaharlal Nehru Professorship of Indian
Business and Enterprise endowed by the Indian government,
and based in the BP India Cambridge Centre for Indian Business.
A third of the Department of Engineering’s research is carried out in collaboration with industry
Only 55 miles from London, Cambridge sits at the hub of an
enterprise cluster. The ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ took off in the
1960s and was substantially boosted by the foundation of the
Cambridge Science Park by Trinity College and the creation of
St John’s Innovation Centre by St John’s College.
Other technology parks have been established in the
surrounding region with the result that more than 1,500 high-
tech firms, employing more than 45,000 people, are based
within a 25-mile radius of Cambridge. In 2006 the University set
up Cambridge Enterprise to provide in-depth support for its
academics in commercialising their ideas.
ENGINEERING
The mission of the Department of Engineering is to address the
world’s most pressing challenges. Its research divisions work
within three main themes: engineering for life sciences (for
example, the development of new medical imaging materials
and biomaterials, such as replacement bone), cognitive systems
engineering (such as speech recognition) and sustainable
development (water and sanitation and renewable energy).
Specialist inter-disciplinary centres have been set up within the
Department to collaborate with industry. They include: the
Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (a collaboration
with industry to invent electronic and photonic materials); the
University Gas Turbine Partnership (a joint project with Rolls
Royce); and the Institute for Aviation and the Environment.
Innovating with business and industryengineering, business, manufacturing, materials science
Cambridge provides business and industry with some of the best and brightest young
minds. Each year graduates join blue chip companies and consultancies
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MANUFACTURING
Part of the Department of Engineering, the Institute for
Manufacturing (IfM) has forged strong links with industry and
business both nationally and internationally, including extensive
connections with China. Industrial involvement underpins its
research and education activities, facilitating the rapid transfer
of new ideas and technologies into companies.
Companies collaborate with the IfM via long-term research
programmes, academic/industrial forums and commissioned
research. They work with researchers to address the most critical
industrial issues, and to test and refine new techniques.
A team of industrial practitioners in the IfM’s Industry Links Unit
apply research-based improvement techniques in companies
of all sizes via a programme of industrial services, helping to
improve company performance.
BUSINESS
Recently established compared to its peers, Judge Business
School is on a rapid trajectory of growth. It supports and
encourages leadership and entrepreneurship through a wide
range of programmes – from informal networking opportunities
for undergraduates to intensive courses for mid-career
executives. Students undertake in-company projects in many
countries with an increasing number focusing on India.
The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) aims to spread
the spirit of enterprise to the Cambridge community and
beyond through the delivery of educational activities that
build skills in entrepreneurship. The Centre collaborates with
entrepreneurs and innovators to provide practical training.
Each year around 40 courses, events and programmes in
entrepreneurship are attended by more than 2,000 students
and delegates.
Above Work stations in the modern
foyer of Judge Business School allow
students to work in an informal setting
in between lectures and seminars.
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THE INDIAN CONNECTION
Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Department of Engineering,
Cambridge. Expertise: work on energy-saving electronic
systems to make consumer products (such as mobile phones,
home computers or televisions) more efficient; formation of
three spin-out companies. Indian links: has supervised Nehru
Scholars and other Indian research students who have
progressed to senior posts; collaboration in nanotechnology
with the Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL),
Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, with support for students to
visit Cambridge.
Professor Harry Bhadeshia, Department of Materials
Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge. Expertise: development
of solid-state phase transformation theory, and its
experimental validation, to invent new alloys and processes.
Indian links: collaboration with Tata Steel (Jamshedpur) who
sponsor PhD students to conduct research in Cambridge;
involvement in Centre of Excellence on Neural Networks and
Genetic Algorithms at Bengal Engineering and Science
University, Shipur, Bengal.
Professor Tony Cheetham, Department of Materials Science
and Metallurgy, Cambridge. Expertise: hybrid inorganic-
organic framework structures, light conversion materials, and
materials chemistry of transition metal oxides.
Indian links: collaboration with Professor CNR Rao, JNCASR,
Bangalore. Foreign member of National Academy of Sciences
of India and Honorary Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, Judge Business School
and Master of Sidney Sussex College, sits on the UK-India
Round Table, a top-level forum to discuss issues that may
affect the bilateral relationship.
Professor Lindsay Greer, Department of Materials Science
and Metallurgy, Cambridge. Expertise: microstructural kinetics;
developing new microstructures, properties and
functionalities. Indian links: collaboration with IIT Delhi,
Defence Metallurgical Research Labs (DMRL), Hyderabad, and
Professor Kamanio Chattopadhyay, IISc Bangalore.
Dr Vasant Kumar, Department of Materials Science and
Metallurgy, Cambridge. Expertise: solid state ionics.
Indian links: formal and informal connections with Indian
scientists; Director of Catalysis Hy Sensing; collaboration with
Professor K Singh at Nagpur University.
Dr Gopal Madabhushi, Schofield Centre, Department of
Engineering, Cambridge. Expertise: simulation of the effects
of earthquakes, vibrations and tsunamis on structures;
developing innovative technologies to withstand natural
disasters. Indian links: Adjunct Professor at IIT Mumbai; with
IIT Mumbai runs biennial workshop for industry and
academia.
Dr Ajith Parlikad, Institute for Manufacturing, Department of
Engineering (IfM), Cambridge. Expertise: how information
associated with products can be managed and used
throughout their lifecycle. Indian links: coordinates internship
projects at IfM for IIT students.
Dr Jagjit Singh Srai, Institute for Manufacturing, Department
of Engineering, Cambridge. Expertise: supply chains.
Indian links: recent study of Indian manufacturing and
innovation capabilities as part of UK Government review
of science and innovation policy.
Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam, Centre for Entrepreneurial
Learning, Judge Business School. Expertise: entrepreneurship.
Indian links: board member of UK-India Business Council;
instrumental in setting up student exchange programme
between Judge Business School and Indian School of
Business, Hyderabad, with input from Microsoft Research.
Professor Geoff Walsham, Judge Business School,
Cambridge. Expertise: development and management of
information and communication technologies (ICTs).
Indian links: research in India on development of geographical
information systems, IT in public health systems and digital
inclusion projects.
From top
Professor Gehan Amaratunga
Dr Vasant Kumar
Dr Gopal Madabhushi
Dr Ajith Parlikad
Dr Jagjit Singh Srai
Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam
Professor Geoff Walsham
Innovating with business and industryengineering, business, manufacturing, materials science
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LAW HAS BEEN STUDIED AT CAMBRIDGE since the 13th century. Today
the University’s law school is one of the largest in the UK.
Cambridge-educated lawyers are prominent in academic life,
the judiciary, and in the legal profession.
It was at Cambridge that John Maynard Keynes laid the
foundations for macroeconomics in the 1930s. Today work by
contemporary Cambridge economists and social scientists
informs government policy-making at national and international
levels, helping to create models for industrial growth, social
cohesion, and faith in a multi-cultural society.
Cambridge academics in humanities and social science also
contribute to ambitious research agendas to address the
widening gap between rich and poor, track the experiences
of fragmented communities, and highlight potential dangers
of the digital divide.
In tackling the social and economic problems that face the
world, Cambridge’s graduate programmes in Development
Studies draw expertise from leaders in many disciplines. For
example, Professor Peter Nolan focuses on interaction between
large firms in developing and high income countries, and the
contradictory character of capitalist globalisation.
Cambridge academics contribute to ambitious research agendas to address the widening gap between rich and poor
EDUCATION
The Faculty of Education at Cambridge is the foremost in the
UK, training teachers and carrying out research into the way
people learn: this research informs educational policy around
the world.
Serving societyeducation, economics, archaeology, anthropology
Teaching, learning and research in the humanities and social sciences produces
people whose ideas make vital contributions to the wellbeing of society
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The Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE) is a
collaboration between the national Commonwealth Institute
and the University set up to serve educational needs right
across the Commonwealth.
The Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and
Poverty (RECOUP) examines the cycle of deprivation evident in
some of the world’s poorest communities. Institutions within
four Commonwealth countries currently partner Cambridge:
Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan.
ECONOMICS
At Cambridge in the 1980s, Professor Amartya Sen shifted the
definition of poverty from a ’basic needs’ to a ‘capabilities’
approach. More recently Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta has
explored the interactions between poverty and nutrition, and
has contributed to research in environmental economics and
the economics of social capital. Cambridge economists cover a
vast span of subjects and specialist interests – from household
behaviour, through gender wage discrimination and collective
bargaining, to international monetary policy. Each researcher
brings an individual approach rooted not just in economics but
fields such as psychology, history or mathematics.
Within the context of increasing globalisation, the Faculty has
launched two new centres. The Centre for International
Macroeconomics and Finance focuses on issues such as global
interaction and financial crises. The Centre for Microeconomics
concentrates on analysis of survey data, networks, and
theoretical and applied microeconomic policy.
UNDERSTANDING HUMANITY
By understanding the past, we come to a better understanding
of the present; by studying humanity in all its guises, we come
closer to understanding ourselves. At the turn of the 20th
century WHR Rivers pioneered the modern anthropological
method at Cambridge, becoming the first director of the
University’s psychological laboratory. Today his successors in the
Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology bring us closer to
solving great puzzles such as the origins of modern man.
Working with Banaras Hindu University and Uttar Pradesh State
Department of Archaeology, Professor Dilip Chakrabarti recently
completed a 14-year study of the Ganga Plain, covering more
than 1,000 sites in northern India, many of them hitherto
unrecorded. Two new projects funded by UKIERI (see below) will
shed further light on early Indian history by bringing together
archaeologists and anthropologists from Cambridge and India.
THE INDIAN CONNECTION
Professor Robin Alexander, Primary Review, Faculty
of Education, Cambridge. Expertise: primary
education. Indian links: long-standing adviser to
government, institutes and education centres in India.
Professor Christopher Colclough, Centre for
Commonwealth Education, Faculty of Education,
Cambridge. Expertise: education policy; advised
UNICEF, UNESCO, Rockefeller Foundation, World Bank.
Indian links: Director of RECOUP, research partnership
looking at role of education in reducing poverty in
India and other countries.
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Faculty of
Economics, Cambridge. Expertise: welfare and
development economics; distribution of resources,
population, economics of under-nutrition.
Indian links: has worked closely with leading Indian
academics and policy-makers.
Dr Shailaja Fennell, Development Studies,
Cambridge. Expertise: agricultural reforms, gender,
kinship and ethnicity and education.
Indian links: contributing to RECOUP by looking at
the extent and types of private-public partnerships to
understand influence of new education providers.
Dr Sriya Iyer, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.
Expertise: economics and religion. Indian links:
carrying out a large-scale survey in India looking at
how religious organisations provide education, health
and welfare.
Dr Pramila Krishnan, Faculty of Economics,
Cambridge. Expertise: applied microeconomics,
household well-being. Indian links: research into
rural-urban migration in Maharashtra and Andhra
Pradesh; education in Bombay slums; financial
networks in rural areas; allocation of public goods in
rural India. Working with ICRISAT (International Crop
Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics),
Hyderabad and Mumbai-based NGO, Akanksha.
Dr Marta Lahr, Dr Toomas Kivisild and colleagues,
Department of Biological Anthropology, Cambridge.
Expertise: evolutionary history of mankind.
Indian links: UKIERI-funded research with Centre for
Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad,
on role of India in evolutionary history.
Professor James Mayall, Centre for International
Studies, Cambridge. Expertise: impact of ethnic,
national and religious conflicts since end of Cold War.
Indian links: Pavate Fellowship scheme supports
Indian visiting scholars in international relations,
business studies and applied mathematics.
Dr Cameron Petrie, Department of Archaeology,
Cambridge. Expertise: archaeology of South Asia.
Indian links: UKIERI-funded research with Dr Ravindra
Nath Singh at Banaras Hindu University to explore
cultural and geographical transformation of north-
west India between 2000 and 300 BC.
Dr Nidhi Singal, Faculty of Education, Cambridge.
Expertise: background in clinical psychology and
education. Indian links: contributing to a strand of
RECOUP giving a voice to India’s most disadvantaged
young people – those with disabilities.
Professor Ajit Singh, Judge Business School,
Cambridge. Expertise: finance and development in
rich and poor countries; has been senior economic
adviser to governments of Mexico and Tanzania and
consultant to various UN developmental
organisations, including the World Bank and UNIDO.
Clockwise from top left
Professor Robin Alexander
Dr Cameron Petrie
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
Professor Ajit Singh
Priti Parikh, PhD student in the Centre for Sustainable Development
at Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, collects data in the
settlement of Sanjaynagar, Ahmedabad. Her work examines the
impact that safe water and sanitation can make on a community.
Priti studied in India before moving to Cambridge.
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OVER THE CENTURIES CAMBRIDGE has produced some of the world’s
most famous writers and actors, broadcasters and journalists,
historians and politicians.
The University’s strength lies in its depth of
expertise and its innovation in establishing
interdisciplinary programmes
In literature, the University’s legacy takes in names that range
from poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
to contemporary writers A S Byatt and Zadie Smith. The many
actors and directors who starred in student productions at
Cambridge include Emma Thompson and Trevor Nunn.
Among broadcasters and journalists who developed their
critical edge at Cambridge are BBC correspondents, John
Simpson and Mark Tully.
In history, a ‘Cambridge school’ has influenced scholarship
worldwide since the 1960s. Led by Professor John Gallagher,
Dr Anil Seal and Professor Eric Stokes, Cambridge became a
centre for the study of modern Indian history. Their work was
taken forward by Dr Rajnarayan Chandavarkar and Professor
Sir Christopher Bayly, attracting students from across the world.
Academics who gained their PhDs at Cambridge hold senior
positions in Europe, the USA and India (Kolkata, Delhi, Aligarh,
and Mumbai).
A particular strength in the arts and humanities is the interplay
between disciplines: for example, examining the interaction
between literature and the environment, performance and
architecture, and science and democracy. Up-and-coming
figures include Dr Robert Macfarlane who writes about man’s
relationship with the natural world.
THE INDIAN CONNECTION
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities (CRASSH) hosts speakers, fellows and visitors from
India. They have included Amit Chaudhuri, (Leverhulme
Fellowship at Cambridge), Professor Leela Gandhi
(University of Chicago), Professor Rukmini Byaha Nair,
Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri and Professor Supriya
Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University).
Dr Joya Chatterji, Faculty of History, Cambridge.
Expertise: modern South Asian history. Indian links: principal
investigator in a major research project into the experience of
displaced communities in India and the UK that will help to
inform government policy.
Dr Eivind Kahrs and Dr Vincenzo Vergiani, Faculty of Asian
and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge. Expertise: teaching of
Sanskrit to give students access to texts ranging from
mathematics to poetry. Indian links: collaboration with
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, University of
Pune, and Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry.
Craig Jamieson, University Library and Faculty of Divinity,
Cambridge. Expertise/Indian links: Sanskrit manuscripts,
Buddhism, Pala art, responsible for South Asian, Southeast
Asian and Tibetan book and manuscript collections.
Dr Gordon Johnson, Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Expertise: modern Indian history. Indian links: General Editor
of the New Cambridge History of India and editor of the
journal Modern Asian Studies for almost 40 years.
Aishwarj Kumar, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
Cambridge. Expertise/Indian links: one of fewer than a dozen
Hindi teachers at European universities, teaches graduates
who need proficiency in Hindi, whether as anthropologists,
historians, linguists or students of religious studies.
Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Faculty of English, Cambridge.
Expertise: post-colonial and comparative literature; modern
Indian writing in English and translation; cinema.
Indian links: teaching and research on writers such as
Rabindranath Tagore, GV Desani, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton
Mistry, Nayantara Sahgal, Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh.
Also a member of the English Faculty, Dr Subha Mukerjee
is a specialist in Renaissance literature and Shakespeare.
Professor Julius Lipner, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge.
Expertise/Indian links: teaches Hinduism and comparative
religion; research on Vedantic thought and the interaction
between India and the West with special reference to 19th
century Bengal; methodology of inter-religious and inter-
cultural understanding.
From top
Dr Joya Chatterji
Professor Sir Christopher Bayly
(see page opposite)
Dr Priyamvada Gopal
Contributing to culturelanguage, literature, history, religion
Studies of all forms of creative expression – art and music, language and
literature, philosophy and religion – help us explore our identity and culture,
and understand those of others
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THE CENTRE OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES is a hub that encourages
interaction between scholars across the University. In particular
it fosters a vibrant graduate community. Its collection of
resources relating to South Asia is the largest in the UK outside
London. It holds books and journals, as well as an archive
of private papers, photographs, cinéfilm and oral history
recordings. It is used by undergraduates, postgraduates,
researchers and scholars from around the world.
The collection includes rare footage of the wedding of the Maharajah of Patiala of 1923
The first items listed in the Centre’s library were part of a
donation from the library of the novelist E M Forster. Since then
the Centre has actively collected material and expanded its
remit to cover Southeast Asia as well as South Asia. Its archive
now holds 0.75 million items, many of them rare.
Digitisation of the oral history and film collections will make
them accessible to researchers worldwide. The collection covers
many landmark events in Indian history. Among them are: rare
footage of the wedding of the Maharajah of Patiala in 1923, film
of the effects of Partition in 1947, and film of early autogyro
flights over Lahore in the 1940s.
The oral history collection offers a unique insight into the recent
history of India. It has recordings of interviews with Indian Civil
Service officials, freedom fighters, clerics, soldiers and assassins,
among others.
The new Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies,
Professor Sir Christopher Bayly brings a wealth of experience
and scholarship to the role. As Director his aim is to expand
and enhance the influence and importance of Indian studies
both within the University and throughout the academic world.
Centre of South Asian Studiesresearch resources for Indian scholarship
Located in the heart of Cambridge, the Centre of South Asian
Studies is a resource that serves scholars in Cambridge and
around the world
Overlooking the River Cam in the heart
of historic Cambridge, the Centre
of South Asian Studies is a hub for
scholars in humanities and social
sciences. Pictured is the Centre’s
administrator Dr Kevin Greenbank.
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WHILE SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES HAVE BROUGHT us great benefits,
the world’s expanding population and its growing use of
technology have made inroads into our planet’s natural
resources; habitats and biodiversity have been lost and
ecosystems altered. Greenhouse gases have caused the
climate to change in ways that could prove irreversible.
Shared knowledge between palaeontologists,archaeologists and geologists is helping to build up a picture of climate change
Cambridge is tackling climate change head on, with 88 research
groups into the environment harnessing expertise across many
disciplines: physics, biology, environmental sciences, economics
and social sciences. For example, shared knowledge between
palaeontologists, archaeologists and geologists is helping to
build up a picture of how the world’s climate has changed over
millennia and how its ecosystems have adapted to successive
waves of warming and cooling.
Sustainable management of water resources is a pressing
issue worldwide. In many countries, the question of water
management is made complex by political and cultural factors
as well as environmental issues. Developing strategies that
address such problems entails well-informed research
by scientists whose work provides a solid foundation for
policy-making.
SUSTAINABILITY
With the link between human activity and global warming
firmly established, the University is working with industry and
government to develop more efficient energy production and
energy use. Innovative thinking is required to find solutions
that meet the needs of developing societies while minimising
emissions overall.
Sustainability is a huge area of growth for the Department
of Engineering, which appointed Peter Guthrie as the UK’s
first Professor of Sustainable Development in 2000. Initiatives
elsewhere in the University include programmes looking
at urbanisation. Sustainability of Land Use and Transport is
a five-centre research project involving the Department
of Architecture.
The Cambridge Programme for Industry runs leadership
development programmes on sustainability for senior
executives and policy-makers worldwide. Its programmes –
which include The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment
Programme, The Climate Leadership Programme, and
The Business and Poverty Leadership Programme – partner
governments to drive climate change policies and practices.
PUBLIC POLICY – COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Growing numbers of Cambridge academics advise
organisations beyond the University in such spheres as
education and training, business and industry, and policy and
government – both nationally and internationally.
The University sets great store in sharing its knowledge and
resources with the general public, and encouraging their
participation in educational activities. The University’s students
and staff annually contribute more than 370,000 human-hours
to outreach activities on a voluntary basis. The Cambridge
Science Festival, a programme of free activities, is the largest
event of its kind in the UK, each year attracting more than
25,000 visitors.
Meeting new challengesclimate change, conservation, sustainability, policy-making
We live in a fast-changing world in which millions of people have at their fingertips
technologies unknown 20 years ago. The benefits these technologies promise –
improved healthcare, faster communications, easy access to information – are huge
Cambridge has more than 80 research
groups committed to tackling one
of the most pressing issues of our
time: the environment and how to
conserve it. This wind turbine was
photographed by Adam Adron, a
Cambridge engineering graduate.
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CONSERVATION
Cambridge specialists lead the way in conservation science and
informing worldwide policy on the environment. The University
has centres of expertise in threatened species, ecosystems,
assessing the economic and social aspects of conservation, and
the management of the use of biological resources.
A strong feature of Cambridge is the extent of the collaboration
between academics with policy-makers, government agencies,
conservation organisations and other institutes based in and
around Cambridge. The Cambridge Conservation Forum (CCF)
exists to strengthen the links between them.
During 2006–07 the University created three new chairs in
conservation, including the Miriam Rothschild Chair of
Conservation Biology, established to honour the eminent
zoologist Dame Miriam Rothschild.
THE INDIAN CONNECTION
Collaborative project Sustainable Humane
Housing in Developing Contexts linked CEPT
University (Ahmedabad) and RIZVI College of
Architecture (Mumbai) with EAPLV (Paris) and the
Department of Architecture at Cambridge. A total of
90 students and 18 members of staff took part in the
programme. Led to founding of student-led charity
Architecture sans Frontières, overseen by Nicholas
Ray, Department of Architecture, Cambridge.
Dr Anjali Goswami, Department of Earth Sciences,
Cambridge. Expertise: fossil record of Indian fauna in
the Mesozoic era, when India was an island
continent. Indian links: collaboration with researchers
at University of Jammu to understand vertebrate
evolution in an isolated system through major
extinctions and climate changes.
Professor Rhys Green, Department of Zoology,
Cambridge. Expertise: conservation of threatened
species and impact of climate change and human
land use. Indian links: collaborations with Wildlife
Institute for India, Indian Veterinary Research
Institute and Bombay Natural History Society on
population decline of Asian vultures; advising Centre
for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore on setting up
student conservation conference.
Dr Karsten Neuhoff, Faculty of Economics,
Cambridge. Expertise: government policies on
energy. Indian links: collaboration with Dr Anoop
Singh, IIT, Kanpur, on rural electrification using
renewable energy technology; student-exchange
scheme supported by Cambridge Programme
for Industry.
Professor Keith Richards, Department of
Geography, Cambridge. Expertise: fluvial
geomorphology. Indian links: extensive research on
Indian rivers and water management with Nehru
scholars and Indian colleagues. Collaborators include
Dr Sudhansnu Sinha, India-Canada Environment
Facility; Dr Ashok Ghosh, Dr Nupur Bose, Department
of Environment and Water Management, A N
College, Magadhu University.
Dr Bhaskar Vira, Department of Geography,
Cambridge. Expertise: public policy in India;
development and change in modern India; India’s
IT sector. Indian links: collaboration with Indian
colleagues in academic and research institutes,
and NGOs, in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh on forest
management, the political economy of water
and urban environmental management.
Clockwise from top left
Dr Anjali Goswami
Professor Rhys Green
Nicholas Ray
Dr Bhaskar Vira
Professor Keith Richards
Dr Karsten Neuhoff
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CREATING EXAMINATIONS GLOBALLY:
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT
EVERY YEAR, THOUSANDS OF Indian students enter university
in India and overseas armed with international qualifications
from Cambridge Assessment – such as A Level, IGCSE and IELTS.
Europe’s largest assessment agency, Cambridge Assessment
works in partnership with many Indian educational
organisations and schools through University of Cambridge
International Examinations (CIE) and University of Cambridge
ESOL Examinations. For more information go to
www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk.
PUBLISHING FOR THE INDIAN MARKET:
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge University Press has been publishing at the highest
levels on India-related subjects for more than 100 years. In
recent times, the New Cambridge History of India, now running to
more than 25 volumes, and the Journal of Modern Asian Studies
have become focal points for the best of world scholarship in
their fields. The Press also publishes journals and scholarly books
within India, as well as locally-relevant school materials. It has
also begun to publish a range of bilingual dictionaries for
learners with Indian first languages.
Most of the Press’s typesetting is carried out in India, as is an
increasing proportion of its printing, including for world
markets. The Press has offices in six Indian ‘metros’, providing
support services to booksellers and academics at all levels of
India’s education system.
KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH CAMBRIDGE
Indian Cambridge Alumni Groups
There are more than 1,190 Cambridge alumni in India.
A network of alumni societies operates across India. Please see
http://www.foundation.cam.ac.uk/ for contact details and
activities or call the Alumni Relations Team in Cambridge on
+44 (0)1223 332288.
Cambridge University India Society
The India Society is one of the largest student-run societies at
Cambridge. It organises regular social events for members and
non-members, and raises awareness of cultural and political
issues related to India. Membership is open to any student with
an interest in the rich and diverse culture of the subcontinent.
Other sources of information
MBA students from Cambridge’s Judge Business School sightseeing
during an exchange with the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad,
in 2006.
The quotation and the illustration above come from the Astasahasrikaprajnaparamita , held at the University
Library, Cambridge. The illustration was created on palm leaf 1,000 years ago and depicts an opening lotus
fl ower, a symbol of the purity of Buddhist teaching (Add.1643 folio 222 recto middle panel). By permission of
the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library.
The University Library has one of the most important collections of Indian manuscripts in the world,
including the oldest Indian illustrated manuscript in existence, dated to 997.
“But it is possible to hear the perfection of wisdom, to distinguish it, to concentrate
on, to grasp, or to comprehend it. It is possible to explain or to listen to this
perfection of wisdom by its appearance, characteristics and distinctive features?”
Astasahasrikaprajnaparamita 177
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Dr Shailaja Fennell cycles over Magdalene Bridge, Cambridge. Educated at the University
of Delhi, she took a PhD at Cambridge, where she is now a University Lecturer in
Development Studies and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her work has examined long-term
trends in cereal production in India, and she is currently researching public-private
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