Coromandel Trade
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.
Digital Presentations in the Museum
To collect materials relating to his study of modern electronic and computer based techniques used in display
Tales of the Buddha Shakyamuni
To obtain materials relating to the study of the Jatakas and life stories of Buddha Shakyamuni in UK collections
Miniature Paintings in the V&A museum
To obtain photographs of Pahari ragamala miniature paintings in the collections of the V&A Museum
Trade in India
For costs of materials and photographs of British archaeological collections relating to early trade in the Indian subcontinent
Documentation on the art of Mathura, Sand and Amaravati in the UK
Documentation of Indian coins in the UK
For photographs of Bengali scroll paintings from British collections.
I received the grant during the course of my PhD on the picture story-telling traditions in Bengal and Rajasthan. These are traditions in which itinerant storytellers use scroll paintings to illustrate their storytelling performances. The sterling grant enabled me to order slides of the wonderful scroll paintings, particualrly from the J C French collection in the V&A and British Museum. They were extremely useful, as these paintings are among four or five surviving examples of a superb, lost tradition.
A study of the murals of Alchi monastery
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.
Indo-Sasanian coins of Northern India (CE 650-1200) in UK collections
