Rita Ghyanshyamsinh Sodha

I received the award at the outset of my research for the doctoral thesis. The timely award enabled me to travel to museums and document the set of paintings which formed a good portion of my research material. It also facilitated the correspondence with various other museums abroad and in India, enablng me to gather information regarding their collections and most specifically the Sursagar set of Mewar that I was working on. I could also use the money of the award on processing of photographs of the paintings, copies of which I evenutally sent to the Trust as part of my project report. I am glad to report that I finally submitted my doctoral thesis entitled "An interpretative study of the text and paintings of the Mewar School (last quarter of the 17th century)" to MS University of Baroda, in September 2000. I also received the UGC Junior Research and Senior Research Fellowship for pursuing my doctoral thesis. I am now employed as a teacher in the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda. I intend to publish my dissertation and get a few papers published in journals.