Based on this recommendation, the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) was eventually established in 1988. It was located within the campus of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, which itself had been established by Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group, nearly eighty years earlier. In many ways, NIAS is a sister institute to IISc, and perhaps also evokes Jamsetji’s original vision that ‘humanities’ are as important as the ‘sciences’ to raise the quality of life of the community.
