UK Visiting Fellowships
Ms Joyee Roy (Ghosh)
Assistant Curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, for a study of “British Artists of the 18th and 19th centuries with particular reference to those working in India or on Indian themes”.
Ms Ambika Bipin Patel
Curator/Assisant Professor, Department of Archaeology, MS University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, for a study of “alternate ways of learning: museum educational programmes for school children in the UK”.
Ms Chitra K S
Project Researcher for the “Baroda Project” of the Asian Art Archive (Hong Kong) for a “case study of the devotional objects in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London as part of a larger study of Hinduism and the question of “Hindu Art” in the nineteenth century”.
UK Travel Awards
Dr V Selvakumar
Assistant Professor, Ancient History and Archaeology University of Mysore, for systematic documentation of megalithic and early historic cultural remains in a small valley in Kollegal taluk, Chamarajanagar dist, Karnataka.
India Travel Awards
Ms Chloe Head and Ms Sally Rosemary Higgs
Post-graduate Diploma students in Easel Paintings Conservation, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, to undertake internships at the Conservation Centre of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghrahalaya, Mumbai.
Ms Sophie Clamp
Graduate student, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, for a study of Udaipur miniature painters.
Small study and research grants (India)
Dr Riza Abbas
Senior Research Officer, Indian Rock Art Research Centre Nasik, for a study entitled: Colours of life: decoding the rock art of the historical period in India.
Ms Shobha V Assistant
Professor, Ancient History and Archaeology University of Mysore, for systematic documentation of megalithic and early historic cultural remains in a small valley in Kollegal taluk, Chamarajanagar distt, Karnataka.
Mr Thangadurai T
Research scholar, Dept of Epigraphy and Archaeology, Tamil University, Thanjavur, for a study of the fortifications of the Pudukkottai region in the period from 1300 CE to 1900 CE.
Mr Gowrisankar S
Research student, Department of Epigraphy and Archaeology, Tamil University, Thanjavur, for a study of medieval irrigation systems in the Central Kaveri valley, Tamil Nadu.
Ms Moumita Ghosh
Curatorial Assistant, Indian Museum, Kolkata, for a study of ivory carving of Murshidabad.
Mr Sachin Kumar Tiwary
Research Student, Patna University; also working in Archaeological Survey of India as Assistant Archaeologist on contract basis, for an ethno-archaeological interpretation of rock art from Kaimur district of Bihar.
Mr Ritvik Gautam Balvally
Masters Student at the MS University of Baroda, for a reappraisal of torpedo jars in Indian ocean trade.
Mr Vrushab Mehta
PhD Candidate and UGC Junior Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, MS University of Baroda, for a study of oral traditions and contemporary practices associated with the Veergals (hero stones) in Hassan distt, Karnataka.
Ms Sayananti Ghosh
Curatorial Assistant, Indian Museum, Kolkata, for a study of huqqa: types and their depiction in art.
Dr V Jeyaraj
Director, Hepzibah Institute of Heritage Conservation, for a survey of British period sculptures of all media in cultural institutions and in open air in Tamil Nadu.
Ms Rajalakshmi Karakulam
Masters Student, Archaeology, MS University of Baroda, for a study of Phytoliths from the Harappan site of Shikarpur, Kutch, Gujarat.