Architecture

Jain Art Fund Awards
Anisha Saxena

A study of the Shikharbandhi Jain Derasar at Potters Bar and the Jain Centre in Leicester

UK Visiting Fellowship
2010
HistoryArchitectureJainismContemporary

I received the Jain Art Fund Award for the year 2010-2011 and it was for a period of one month. The primary purpose of this award was to enable students in India to access Jaina collection of the V&A and other museums and libraries in England, but in my project I wanted to stretch the limitations of the award and include research on Jain diaspora in England. I was particularly interested in recording and collecting material on Jain migration myths and histories and to conduct research on the temple building rituals among the Jain diaspora in England.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Anuradha Chaturvedi

A cultural resource centred sustainable development model for the region of Ladakh

UK Travel Award
2004
ArchitectureHistoryLadakh

This research visit was sought in order to obtain materials to contribute to my PhD dissertation. During the period of the award it was possible to access a number of important sources of information pertaining to the Ladakh region, the most significant among these being the Album of Pictorial Maps of the area know as the "Wise Album' as well as the Schlagintweit survey expedition accounts. At present (2005) I am writing a paper based on the "Wise Maps" which will become a chapter in my PhD.

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Nehru Trust Awards
B Sekhar

Video documentation of museum objects in Tamil Nadu

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1999
Art HistoryArchitectureHinduismTamil Nadu

The project bult on my earlier award from the NTICVA and focused on the Nayak temples in Tamil Nadu. This in turn led to a major research project funded by the University Grants Commission.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Dr Syamali Das

Baluchar silk and temple terracottas: a comparative study of motifs

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1998
Art HistorySculptureArchitectureTextilesBengal

The award gave me a good opportunity to travel and visit many terracotta temples in remote villages in Bengal that remained unknown and undocumented. I have (2001) prepared a popular article and two research papers are ready for publication. I interact usefully with a stream of students and research workers from the Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati and Burdwan University Bardhaman.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Vikas Dilawari

Past in Present: Care of the Gothic Revival

UK Travel Award
1998
ConservationGlassArchitectureMaharashtra

Although I had been in the UK for a year and had obtained an MA in Conservation Studies from the Institute of Advanced Arhitectural Studies, University of York on a Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship, and had formal qualifications, I was lacking practical training. This is where the Fellowship was tailor made. In India I had the distinction of being one of the earliest practicising conservation architectects, but in retrospect I feel that this fellowship made all the difference to my career.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Mannu Gounder Gandhi

Study of  South Indian sculpture in UK museum collections.

UK Visiting Fellowship
1995
Art HistorySculptureArchitectureMedievalTamil Nadu

I visited many museums in the UK during my stay there, and both documented South Indian sculptures and bronzes and display methods. I subsequently developed display methods for the Government Museums at Vellore and Cuddalore. Since then I have received a fellowship awarded by the Institute for Social Science and Research at Vellore. I delivered about 100 lectures in the period between 1994 and 2001 to college and school students, Rotary and other clubs, and groups of visitors to the Vellore museum.

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