Mr Parjanya Sen was awarded a Small Study and Research Grant (UK) (2014-15), when PhD student, Centre for Studies in Social Science, Kolkata, for copies or archive material from the British Library, British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, for the study: “Documenting early Islamic Monuments of Eastern India – Architectural Antiquities and the Colonial Archive”.
Supervised by Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Professor of History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Dr Sen’s research and resulting PhD dissertation explored Tibet’s role in fostering a scholarly Buddhist community in colonial Bengal, as part of an effort to recover the region’s religious heritage. Following his PhD, in 2023, Sen secured the Robert H N Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellowship in Buddhist Studies at Oxford, which provided him with additional research opportunities in archives across the UK to develop a book that would solely focus on Tibet. He has recently edited a book entitled: Death and Dying in Northeast India: Indigeneity and Afterlife, and is working on a monograph on Sarat Chandra Das, focussing on his role in the production of knowledge on Tibet from colonial Bengal.