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Many books in the collection "are hardly ever used, because we don't have an area studies center," said Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali Asani, who teaches modern Indian languages. Asani cited his current research on a collection of 150 manuscripts he stumbled upon--still uncatalogued...
...point is that the material was there, but not accessible," Asani said. "If Harvard ever had a center, it would improve their collection and draw scholars and researchers," said the Indian scholar, looking up from one of the manuscripts...
...musicology. Other say the small course allowed them to learn more specifically what they were interested in. "It's impossible for me to imagine what we are doing if there was even my own shadow visiting," says Jayasinhji Jhala, who is the only student in a class taught by Asani on Gugarati, a regional Indian language...
...Asani says his class is "the ideal teaching situation. I sort of believe that a teacher should not only know the student academically, but in a personal way. It's more like the traditional (in a European sense) student-mentor relationship or the tradition in the Islamic world where you sit with a guru and you learn thins on a one-to-one basis...
...hand, why should Harvard be supporting such a course, but if Harvard doesn't do it, who's going to do it? I think this year Harvard is the only university in the entire United States that teaches Gugarati," Asani says. "It's part of what Harvard is all about...