| 1579 |
Fr Thomas Stephens from New College sends letters from India to his family, laying the foundation of Anglo-Indian literature. |
| 1830 |
Col. Joseph Boden of the East India Company endows the Boden Chair in Sanskrit to further Christian missionary work in India. Its first occupant was H. H. Wilson, who published the first Sanskrit-English dictionary. |
| 1848 |
Friedrich Max Müller moves to Oxford as Professor of Comparative Philology. Müller became the general editor of the Sacred Books of the East, and devoted 30 years to translating the Rig-veda, editing the text with Sayanacharya's fourteenth-century commentary. |
| 1860 |
Sir Monier Monier-Williams succeeds Wilson as the Boden Professor in Sanskrit. |
| 1871 |
The first Indian Students at Oxford University (entry no longer confined to members of the Church of England). |
| 1883 |
Monier-Williams establishes the Indian Institute at Oxford. The Institute was established as a training ground for the Indian Civil Service and Indian students. |
| 1936 |
H. N. Spalding endows the Spalding Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics at All Souls College. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, later President of India, held the chair from its inception until 1952. |
| 1961 |
The Indian Institute moves to the newly built Oriental Institute. Its art collection moves to the University’s Ashmolean Museum. |
| 1982 |
The Centre for Indian Studies is established at St Antony's College with financial assistance from the Indian government. |
| 1997 |
The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies is founded. |
| 2003 |
The first OCHS Shivdasani Visiting Fellows arrive in Oxford. |
| 2002 |
Oxford's first Professor of Indian History and Culture appointed. The position is funded by the Government of India. |
| 2006 |
OCHS is granted Recognised Independent Centre status by Oxford University, in recognition of its commitment to academic rigour and dispassionate research. |
