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A P P E A L

Dear Readers and Friends of The Annual of Urdu Studies (AUS),

As you know, the AUS is not a profit-making enterprise and it has managed to stay alive largely thanks to the hard work of its two-person, part-time staff and to the financial support of the Center for South Asia, the Graduate School, and the College of Letters and Science of the University of Wisconsin, and, mainly, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS). Gradually, however, the heavy financial strain on the resources of these bodies has led to the cessation of all support, except for a $4,000 annual grant promised by the latter institution.

Unfortunately, the present financial situation makes it all but impossible to keep the AUS alive. Whether it will continue to publish depends on whether all of you in the Urdu community at large are willing to come forward and assume responsibility for the dissemination of knowledge regarding Urdu humanities. We need about $23,000 per issue, primarily for the salary of an assistant editor. Your generous contribution for the current issue comes to just over $15,000.

Please take a moment and think seriously about whether this journal, the only one of its kind in the West, merits being kept alive. If you think it has performed a valuable service to the scholarly world and the Urdu community, please send your contribution payable to: University of Wisconsin Foundation with "Annual of Urdu Studies /12546746" in the memo line.

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