History

Jain Art Fund Awards
Anisha Saxena

A study of the Shikharbandhi Jain Derasar at Potters Bar and the Jain Centre in Leicester

UK Visiting Fellowship
2010
HistoryArchitectureJainismContemporary

I received the Jain Art Fund Award for the year 2010-2011 and it was for a period of one month. The primary purpose of this award was to enable students in India to access Jaina collection of the V&A and other museums and libraries in England, but in my project I wanted to stretch the limitations of the award and include research on Jain diaspora in England. I was particularly interested in recording and collecting material on Jain migration myths and histories and to conduct research on the temple building rituals among the Jain diaspora in England.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Dr. Shajan K.P.

Malabar coast: Trade systems in the early historic period

UK Visiting Fellowship
2005
ArchaeologyHistoryTradeKerala

The proposed programme was mainly intended to collect literature on Indo-Roman trade, and to interact with experts in the UK and Europe in the field of early historic Indian ocean trade, to gain knowledge of the imported ceramics of the Roman period and Gulf region, and to get expertise in the newly emerging field of geo-archaeology. The research was carried out at the Centre of South East Asian Studies, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and various other institutions in the UK.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Dr. Pramod Kumar Mohanty

A study of the culture of colonial cities

UK Travel Award
2005
HistoryCultural HistoryEarly ModernOrissa

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.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Anuradha Chaturvedi

A cultural resource centred sustainable development model for the region of Ladakh

UK Travel Award
2004
ArchitectureHistoryLadakh

This research visit was sought in order to obtain materials to contribute to my PhD dissertation. During the period of the award it was possible to access a number of important sources of information pertaining to the Ladakh region, the most significant among these being the Album of Pictorial Maps of the area know as the "Wise Album' as well as the Schlagintweit survey expedition accounts. At present (2005) I am writing a paper based on the "Wise Maps" which will become a chapter in my PhD.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Bishnupriya Basak

Understanding the antiquity of mankind: Interpretation of past human behaviour from archaeological artefacts with special reference to stone tools

UK Visiting Fellowship
2001
ArchaeologyAnthropologyHistoryMuseum studies

The Nehru Trust award allowed me to visit the archives and manuscript collections of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, and Indian Collections housed in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. The ambition of my project was to better consider the beginnings of prehistoric archaeology in the Indian sub-continent with special reference to eastern India.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Dr J Raja Mohamad

Coromandel trade

UK Visiting Fellowship
1997
HistoryTradeTextilesTamil Nadu

Along with the UK Visiting Fellowship this enabled me to collect data on the subject of the Coromandel English trade from UK institutions.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Dr J Raja Mohamad

Coromandel Trade

Small Study and Research Grant (UK)
1997
Art HistoryHistoryEarly ModernTextilesTamil NaduAndhra Pradesh

The Visiting Fellowship gave me the opportunity to visit the museums and archives in the UK, including the Victoria and Albert Museum. The award also enabled me to gain more professional expertise and to enrich my knowledge of museology. I prepared a monograph about my experience in the UK and presented research papers to history fora on the Indian objects in the Coromandel- English trade.

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Nehru Trust Awards
Dr Kavita Singh

A complex history: collections of Indian art at the V&A

UK Visiting Fellowship
1996
HistoryMuseum studiesModern

Of the grants awarded to me, the one that most deeply affected me , was the NTICVA Visiting Fellowship which I was awarded soon after completing my PhD when I was looking for a new area of study and had become interested in the field of new new museology. This deconstructive approach applies insights of the new anthropology to the field of museology, examining the ways in which museums have become influential institutions in the modern world, as custodians and interpreters of the artefacts of the past.

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