Peace Corps India Training Program File, 1957-68 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Peace Corps India Training Program File consisting of Peace Corps and Program publications, including the program training plan (1962), Shantidoot newsletter (1962), and final report (1963); newspaper clippings (1961-66), program instruction materials and bibliographies (1962), trainee files (1962), final report and follow-up on the project; and training program contracts, housing files, personnel files, and relations with Indian Universities. In the summer of 1962, fifty Peace Corps volunteers were trained at Illinois for work in India. Training consisted primarily of instruction in languages (Hindi and Gujrati), Indian area studies, and the United States in World Affairs, and the project was coordinated by Thomas Page.