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

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.

A study of the culture of colonial cities

After a general introduction to the South Asian collections at the V&A, I mainly devoted my time in the UK to refer to both printed and unprinted documents relating to my study mainly at the British Library and partly in other places like School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge University.