Nehru Trust Awards

Nehru Trust Awards

The Trust aims to achieve its mission by making it possible for scholars and professionals from India and the UK to develop and share skills relevant to these subjects and to gain access to Indian cultural resources both in India and in the UK.

The Trust’s primary activity is an annual awards programme for individual scholars and museum professionals from both countries in order to enable them to study, carry out research or undertake training in both India and the UK. The awards programme is announced each autumn; awards are made in late March and must be taken up within the subsequent year (1 April to 31 March).

The Trust also administers grants on behalf of the V&A Jain Art Fund, and works in collaboration with the Charles Wallace India Trust with whom it offers an annual joint UK Visiting Fellowship.

 

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Nehru Trust Awards
Alok Kumar Kanungo

An ethnoarchaeological study of glass beads in Purdalpur

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
2002
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Dr Rangachar Vasantha

Krishnadevaraya Wodeyar III's contributions to the field of board games and chess  

Small Study and Research Grant (UK)
2002
Cultural History19th centuryKarnataka

The grant was to secure research materials relating to the contribution of Krishnadevaraya Wodeyar III made to the field of board games and chess, from  the V&A Museum, the British Museum and the British Library, in London.

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Satarupa Dutta

Satgaon quilts (Indo-Portuguese trade textiles from Bengal) and related materials in the V&A and other UK institutions

Small Study and Research Grant (UK)
2002
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Dr J Raja Mohamed

Ritual objects, vessels, and tools of South India in the collections of the V&A Museum, London

Small Study and Research Grant (UK)
2002
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Arun Kumar Nag

The 'Third Voice' in early history-making processes in India

UK Travel Award
2002
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S Girikumar

Management and care of Photographic Collections

UK Travel Award
2002

Training in advanced photographic conservation techniques at the Centre for Photographic Conservation, London

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Vasudha Joshi

Painting Restoration: Research and Training

UK Visiting Fellowship
2001

To research and receive training in conservation and restoration of easel paintings from the Conservation Centre, National Museums and Galleries Liverpool

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Bishnupriya Basak

Understanding the antiquity of mankind: Interpretation of past human behaviour from archaeological artefacts with special reference to stone tools

UK Visiting Fellowship
2001
ArchaeologyAnthropologyHistoryMuseum studies

The Nehru Trust award allowed me to visit the archives and manuscript collections of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, and Indian Collections housed in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. The ambition of my project was to better consider the beginnings of prehistoric archaeology in the Indian sub-continent with special reference to eastern India.

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Sujata Parsai

Textiles & Arts of the People of India

UK Visiting Fellowship
2001

Professional training in modern methods of storage and preventive conservation, documentation and museum interpretation at the V&A museum, London.

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Dr Andrew Topsfield

Indian sculpture Exhibition Research

India Travel Award
2001

A study of major museum collections and sites in northern India in connection with the catalogue of Indian sculpture at the Ashmolean Museum

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