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
Radhika Sahgal

Miniature paintings and works on paper: Conservation and care

UK Visiting Fellowship
1997
ConservationPaintingsPaper

I was already in the process of conserving Indian miniatures but the award gave me a chance not only to be involved in practical conservation at the V&A but also to visit and discuss the treatment techniques employed by other Paper Conservation Studios. This gave me an opportunity to get acquainted with new materials and techniques. I procured samples of some of these materials in the UK and since then have been able to find some locally. There is unfortunately still a dearth of materials for conservation in India.

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Chandrahasa Bhat

An internship to study the latest techniques relating to the conservation of paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge University.

UK Visiting Fellowship
1997
ConservationPainting

My internship in the paper conservation department at the Hamilton Kerr Institute at the University of Cambridge was really interesting and exciting. It is not an exaggeration if I sawy it is a well equipped conservation studio with highly experienced conservators. My aim was to learn some advanced techniques implemented in conservation, mainly on Indian miniature paintings and western paintings on paper. I was looking for various techniques on consolidation, lining of paper paintings, relaxing of cockled and wrinkled paintings, filling of missing areas and mounting techniques.

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Dr Amin Jaffer

Anglo-Indian furniture

India Travel Award
1997

Fieldwork in relation to the catalogue of the V&A Museum's Anglo-Indian furniture collection

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Elizabeth Lambourn

Islamic architecture and stone carving in Cambay

India Travel Award
1997
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Dr Graham Parlett

Western Artists in India

India Travel Award
1997

Research relating to the catalogue of paintings of India by western artists in the collections of the V&A Museum

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Cary Rajinder Sawhney

"Cinema and Independence" research project

India Travel Award
1997
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Philip Andrew Thompson

The Conservation of  Indian Paintings

India Travel Award
1997

To present two training workshops on the conservation of Indian paintings and to study painting on cotton in India

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Dr John Clarke

Himalayan collections at the V&A

India Travel Award
1997

Research towards a catalogue of the Himalayan collection in the V&A Museum

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Mrinalini Mani

To study the iconic paintings of the Thanjavur and Mysore schools with regard to the materials and techniques adopted to aid their conservation

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1997
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Nandita

European influences in Mughal painting and decorative arts

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1997
MughalPaintingApplied / decorative / ritual arts

The award helped me in the collection of photographs and reading materials and in accessing original manuscripts easil from various museums and libraries in India and thus increasing the value of my study.  I subsequently took up a PhD in the same subject at the National Museum Institute. 

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