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Nehru Trust Awards
Vibha Singh Chauhan

The construction of indigenous gods and linkages with the communities of eastern Uttar Pradesh

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1996

The award of a Small Study and Research grant proved invaluable for me for reasons probably different from many others. I was not a young scholar but a university teacher in mid-career, and had developed a serious academic interest in an area that was not directly related to my formal discipline of English literature. My independent readings in sociology, anthropology and history, along with my travels in the Indian countryside had opened the fresh arena of the creation and continuation of village gods as an intergral part of cultural existence in India.

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Nehru Trust Awards
N Athiyaman

Documentation of traditional diving for pearl and chunk in Mannar Gulf, from the Sangam period onwards;

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1996

These funds were very useful as seed money for ethnographic study in the Tamil region. As a result, Tamil University has extended its helping hand to widen the survey for the Palk Bay region also. INSA, New Delhi, also provided some contingency grants to improve the study of traditional pearl and chank fishing. Since the Trust has encouraged such a small study, I feel more confident in pursuing further ethnographic study uncovered by the scholars.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Dr K Rajan

A study of the traditional bead-making industry of Periya district of Tamil Nadu

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1995

The grant served as seed money to carry out the preliminary studies which helped to take up the major work in the selected field. For instance the feasibility study helped to get major research project funding from the Indian National Science Academy.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Soumhya Venkatesan

The process and results of the commercialisation of Warli tribal Painting

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1993

I would like to thank the Trustees for their timely and generous awards. The first award allowed me to conduct research among the Warli tribe in Maharashtra and to write up the results of this research for my MA dissertation at the National Museum Institute in Delhi. After my MA and spurred on by my work on the Warlis I moved to Cambridge (UK) in 1994 to do an M Phil in Social Anthropology.The M Phil was funded by a Cambridge ODASS award. I subsequently took a PhD on matweaving in South India at the University of Cambridge and now teach at the University of Manchester.

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