What they say : Indian librarians speak on the wheat loan program : a glorious era in the history of Indo-American library cooperation
Abstract
The India Wheat Loan Educational Exchange Program of the Foreign Service of the United States of America originated in 1951 when the U.S. Government loaned to India a sum of $190,000,000 to assist her in relieving acute food shortage. It was stipulated in the Law that the first five million dollars or the Interest would be returned to India in the form of books, scientific equipment, and the exchange of persons.