Ms Ekta Gupta
Ms Ekta Gupta was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship (Charles Wallace India Trust) 2018-19, while a PhD Scholar, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The award was for her study of archaeological and geomorphological understandings of the coast of Tamil Nadu through cartographic and visual records and other archives, at the British Library, Bodleian Library, National Archives, Royal Museums Greenwich, National […]
Dr Sushmita Banerjee
Dr Sushmita Banerjee was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship 2019-20 while Assistant Professor, History Dept, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi, for her study: “Adab and the making of an Islamic world view: the Risala-i–Nuriyya Sultaniyya and normative structures in 17th Century South Asia”.
Dr Arjun Rao
Dr Arjun Rao, was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship 2019-20 while Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Central University, Karnataka, to study Raymond Allchin’s thesis and other collections relating to prehistoric sites of Raichur Doab, Karnataka.
Dr Shreela Basu
Dr Shreela Basu was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship (Charles Wallace India Trust) 2019-20 while Associate Professor, Visva Bharati University, Dept of Bengali, Santiniketan. The award was to continue research on Bengal terracotta temples via the McCutchion photographic archive and related material in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) London, and Bengal scroll paintings via the patachitra collection in the Herbert Art Gallery […]
Dr Sangeeta Dasgupta
Dr Sangeeta Dasgupta was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship 2020-21 while Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for her research on anthropologist S.C Roy. Due to COVID-19 the award was taken up in 2023-24.
Ms Priya Kapoor
Ms Priya Kapoor, was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship (Charles Wallace India Trust) 2020-21, while Conservator, International Heritage Conservation, for a programme on the structural conservation of Sikh Manuscripts at Pothi Seva Foundation, London. Due to COVID-19 the award was taken up in 2022-23.
Ms Siddha Shah
Ms Siddha Shah was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship (Jain Art Fund) 2022-23, while a PhD student, Museum Studies, MS University Baroda, to visit representative collections in the UK, for research on architectural representation on Jain Chitrapatas and Manuscripts.
Dr Ngutoli Swu
Dr Ngutoli Swu was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship (Charles Wallace India Trust) 2022-23, while Assistant Professor, Dimapur Government College, Nagaland, to undertake documentation and study of the Collection of Sümi Cultural Artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
Mr Akash Bharadwaj
Mr Akash Bharadwaj, was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship 2022-23, while Curator and doctoral researcher, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, to study collections from Bihar in UK Museums.
Ms Vishvadharani C.
Ms Vishvadharani C, was awarded the UK Visiting Fellowship 2023-24, while an independent architect and researcher, Mumbai, for research towards her study: “Expertise to Labour: Native Draftsmen in Colonial India”.