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Formal training in scientific techniques for application in molluscan research in Indian archaeology

The UK Visiting Fellowship came at an appropriate time when I was involved in studying past molluscan utilisation on the Indian west coast. It enabled me to initiate application of a specific technique which would not have been possible in India due to financial constraints and lack of expertise. Since my PhD in 1995, my analysis of marine molluscan shells from some of the sites belonging to the Harappan civilisation in coastal Gujarat has revealed their potential in archaeological interpretations.

Terracottas in the history of Indian sculpture: technique and evolution.

The grant allowed me to document terracotta sculptures in a number of museums and private collections, and to study the intervention of technique in the representation and production of sculptures and other terracotta artefacts in ancient India.

To study the urn burials of megalithic period of the Nagapattinam region

This award helped me to do the research on the burial systems, and to motivate my students to get involved in archaeological activities.

Study of prehistoric foreign tools in Indian Museums and Indian prehistoric antiquities in UK Museums and Institutions

This grant allowed me to start a larger study of prehistoric Indian antiquities in both Indian and UK museums. The report which I submitted to the NTICVA at the end of the grant had chapters on foreign tools in Indian tools in UK museums such as the Institute of Archaeology, the British Museum, the Liverpool Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum., who supplied me with literature and some photographs.

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