Trustees:
Sir Charles Troughton K CBE MC TD
The Lord Briggs FBA
The British Council (represented by Mr R Cavaliero)
c/o The British Council
10 Spring Gardens, London SWIA 2BN Telephone 01-930 8466 Telex 8952201 Registered Charity number 283338
The Charles Wallace India Trust is named after Mr Charles Wallace, a British business man in India, who died in 1916. By the terms of his will his estate was, after provision for his children, to be divided between the British Treasury and the Treasury of British India because he held the view that 'all possessions great and small being acquired from or through the people as mine were should return to the people!
By the time Mr Wallace's last surviving child died in 1971, 'British India' had become a number of independent states. The portion of his estate given to the Treasury of British India was accordingly divided between the Governments of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 1978 by the Indian and British Prime Ministers of the day, Mr Morarji Desai and Mr James Callaghan. By this Memorandum, the Indian Government agreed to use its share of Mr Wallace's estate for the benefit of Britons wishing to visit india for educational purposes and the British Government agreed to use a matching proportion of its share of the estate to make similar provision to enable Indians to further their education in Britain.
In pursuance of the Memorandum, the Charles Wallace India Trust was established by the British Government on 29 May 1981 with a capital of £1 million.
It is registered as a charity. It has three trustees, one being the British Council which also provides the Secretariat for the Trust. From the same bequest the Indian Government has created a similar trust with aims very similar to those of the Charles Wallace India Trust. The Trustees of the Charles Wallace India Trust hope to collaborate with the Indian trust in projects of mutual interest.
How the Trust works
The Charles Wallace India Trust will offer scholarships, travel grants and other forms of assistance, to Indian scholars, writers, artists, craftsmen and communicators to pursue courses of studies or training, attend seminars or colloquia, or work under special guidance or supervision in Britain in the broad range of the humanities: fine arts, music, theatre, crafts and design, conservation of historical buildings, archaeology, the preservation of archives, communications, philosophy and the history of ideas or any areas related to these at the discretion of the Trustees.
The Trustees hope that a considerable number of their awards will be made in support of institutional projects for the success of which a period of stay in Great Britain could be an integral part. In collaboration with the parallel trust in India it hopes to establish institutional links which will enable historical and other partnerships to be
started or sustained with a flow of people in both directions.
The Trustees will be ready to collaborate with other Trusts, Foundations, societies and institutions to find a joint share of the costs of such assistance where appropriate. Institutions in Great Britain with proposals or projects in these fields which will serve, either exclusively or with others, persons of Indian nationality living in India to advance their education or studies, should write to the Trustees, Charles Wallace India Trust, do the British Council in London.
Indian nationals living in India who are qualified for assistance in any of the fields mentioned above should write to the representations of the British Council at the addresses given below. They should ask the British Council for details of the Trust and how to apply for awards. The envelope should be marked Charles Wallace India Trust.
The Trustees thank the British Council both in London and in India for their help in providing postal and secretarial facilities but emphasise that the Trust is not part of the British Council nor are its awards British Council awards.
British Council offices are located at the following addresses. They each have regional responsibilities and residents of the states listed after each office should write to the Trustees do the appropriate office:
Delhi
AIFACS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi 110001 (Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh) Bombay
Mittal Tower, C Wing, Nariman Point, Bombay 400 021
(Goa, Daman & Diu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra)
Calcutta
5 Shakespeare Sarani, Calcutta 700 071 (Arunachal Pradesh. Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal)
Madras
737 Anna Salai, PO Box 367, Madras 600 002 (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu)