This grant was to facilitate research for my MA dissertation, and was a great help. It supported my travel to Leh and Alchi as well as enabling me to photo document the monasteries of Alchi.
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A study of the murals of Alchi monastery
A study of Hebbar and his contemporaries
This award was given to me when a student in MS University Baroda. It was timely and helped me to be more articulate by using photographs, travelling to Mumbai to meet the late K K Hebbar. My document was the first critical assessment of the artist and was published in Bangalore (where I was then Lecturer at Chritakala Parishath, in the local language Kannada.
Study of Shikargarh motifs in the miniature paintings and textiles of Mughal North India
This award enabled me to do fieldwork in the Varanasi area and to document research material in the Indian Museum Calcutta, and the National Museum in New Delhi. This impacted on my later research, writing and teaching.
Study of Rock Paintings in Tamil Nadu
The grant allowed me to undertake fieldwork and to visit the sites once again to explore particular questions about the rock paintings. It is proposed (2001) to publish a book on this subject.