Professor M. N. Srinivas Endowment Fund was set up jointly by the Indian Sociological Society (ISS) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2001. The fund was constituted of the following: (a) donation of accumulated royalties on the five volumes of Social Structure and Change published in honour of Prof. Srinivas given by its Editors — A.M. Shah, B.S. Baviskar, E.A. Ramaswamy— to Indian Sociological Society, amounting to Rs. 142,236.00 as on 15 May 2000; (b) a grant of Rs.2 lakh given by the ICSSR to the ISS; and (c) subsequent royalties on the five volumes donated by the Editors to ISS from year to year. A Committee composed of the following manages the Fund: (i) the President of ISS, who is also be the Chairman of the Committee, (ii) one sociologist or social anthropologist nominated by the ICSSR, and (iii) one of the three Editors of Social Structure and Change, namely, A.M. Shah, B.S. Baviskar or E.A. Ramaswamy in the order in which their names are mentioned. When none of them is available, the Managing Committee of ISS will nominate a panel of three eminent sociologists or social anthropologists out of which the President of ISS will choose one to be a member of the Fund Committee in place of the editors.