Soumhya Venkatesan

Soumhya Venkatesan

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1993
Anthropology Art History Folk and tribal studies Painting Contemporary Maharashtra

The process and results of the commercialisation of Warli tribal Painting

MA student, National Museum Institute, New Delhi

I would like to thank the Trustees for their timely and generous awards. The first award allowed me to conduct research among the Warli tribe in Maharashtra and to write up the results of this research for my MA dissertation at the National Museum Institute in Delhi. After my MA and spurred on by my work on the Warlis I moved to Cambridge (UK) in 1994 to do an M Phil in Social Anthropology.The M Phil was funded by a Cambridge ODASS award. I subsequently took a PhD on matweaving in South India at the University of Cambridge and now teach at the University of Manchester.