The Institute invites scholars as Visiting Professors for a period of three months, during which they work on their approved research project. At the end of their tenure, they make a presentation at the Institute.
Visiting Professors from 2016 onwards
The Institute invites senior academicians to Shimla for a period of one month during which they deliver 3 lectures and submit the manuscript of the same. A detailed CV along with abstracts of proposed lectures is to be emailed to aro@iias.ac.in.
| Sr. No. | Name | Bio | Title of Lecture |
| 1. | Professor Sridhar Rajeswaran | Visiting Professor in Humanities Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai Mumbai 400098 And Honorary Director Centre for Advanced Studies in India (CASII), Gujarat |
W.B.Yeats a Dialectic of Desire and Nation: The Body of a Woman and the Lie of the Land (06 May 2016) Girish Karnad: Beginnings, Ends and New Beginnings” on 12 May 2016 Earth 1947 through the Fish-Eye: Imaging the Landscape of Memory" on 23 May 2016 |
| 2. | Professor Pulapre Balakrishnan | Director (Economist) Centre for Developing Studies |
Markets, Growth and Social Justice: Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms” on 09 June 2016 Rights and Capabilities: A Reflection on Democracy and Development in India” on 16 June 2016 Knowing where you come from: the economy of early independent India revisited on 23 June 2016 |
| 3. | Professor Udayon Misra | Former Professor and Head of the Department of English, Dilbrugarh University, Assam Former National Fellow, IIAS |
Re-Defining the Indian Nation: The Northeast Experience-I” on 06 September 2016 “Re-Defining the Indian Nation: The Northeast Experience-II” on 20 September 2016. “Re-Defining the Indian Nation: The Northeast Experience-III” on 26 September 2016. |
| 4. | Shri Keki N. Daruwalla | Indian Police Service in 1958 Padma Shree Awardees |
1. “Historical Fiction: Negotiating the Personal and the Historical” on 06 June 2017 2. Neutral Space? Politics and Poetry on 15 June 2017 |
| 5. | Professor Jean-Luc Racine | Emeritus Senior CNRS Fellow Centre for South Asian Studies School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences Paris |
“India and the World, 1991-2013” on 03 August 2017 India's "soft power” cultural diplomacy and civil society on 09 August 2017 "A New Normal? The “Modi-Fiction” of India on 18 August 2017 |
| 6. | Professor Ashok Modak | National Professor, Trustee, ICCR |
• Veer Savarkar-worthy successor of Swami Vivekanand” on 05th June 2018 • Hijacking of Vivekananda’s Views (15 June 2018) • Russian’s interest in the Life and mission of Swami Vivekananda (22 June 2018) |
| 7. | Professor S. Kodandaraman | Professor of Civil Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College | A Preamble to Vedanta Darsana on 07 September 2018 “The Concept of Advaita Philosophy” on 11 September 2018 |
| 8. | Professor Priyambada Sarkar | Department of Philosophy University of Calcutta |
Spirituality beyond Religion: Rabindranath Tagore and Ludwig Wittgenstein “Spirituality and Religion: the Narrative of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a so-called ‘Jew’” on 06 November 2018 |
| 9. | Professor Sudhir Chandra | Renowned Historian and Gandhian Scholar | • Rejection of the India of Gandhi’s Dream (29th March 2019) • Partition and its Aftermath (3rd April 2019) • Non-violence: The Impossible Possibility of an Urgent Imperative (9thApril 2019) |
| 10. | Professor Leena Abraham | Centre for Studies in Sociology of Education Tata Institute of Social Sciences Deonar, Mumbai 400 088 |
• Feminization of a Medical Field: Developments in Twentieth Century Ayurveda (16th April 2019) • Towards a Cosmopolitan Ayurveda Contributions of Women Ayurveda Physicians (26th April 2019) • Globalization of a Regional Medicine: Developments in Ayurveda in Kerala (3rd May 2019) |
| 11. | Professor Ambikadutt Sharma | Department of Philosophy H.S. Gaur Central University Sagar, M.P. |
. Bhartiya manas ka vi-opniveshikaran: pramanik sanskritatma ke pratyabhigyan ki karyayojana (10th, 14th & 19th June, 2019) |
| 12. | Professor H.R. Meera | NIAS, Bangalore | • Relevance of Vyañjanā in Contemporary Linguistic Studies (18 November 2019) • The Spectrum of Non-literal usages as seen in Śāstraic Framework (22 November 2019) • Context and Vyañjanā” (03 December 2019 ) |
| 13. | Prof. Dr. Harald Wiese | Lehrstuhl für Mikroökonomik Universität Leipzig Postfach |
Pre-modern Indian perspectives on giving, gifting, and sacrifices: the king (16 March 2020) |