The Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship

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The Charles Wallace India Trust

The Charles Wallace India Trust funds one Visiting Research Fellowship per year at The University of Edinburgh. The Fellowship is held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, in association with the University's Centre for South Asian Studies.

The Fellowship is for three months and is for research in 'Contemporary History' - which covers a broad field including political activism, journalism, historiography, historical anthropology and research addressing cultural,social and economic change in South Asia in recent decades.

Applicants must be Indian citizens, resident, and pursuing their academic careers, in India. They must have a doctorate and be under 45.

The Fellowship provides a grant for living expenses in the UK which is currently at the monthly rate of £1300, and a contribution of £500 towards the cost of fares, payable on arrival in the UK.

The CWIT Fellow has a private office in the Institute, with all the usual research facilities, and is a member of IASH's lively research community. S/He is expected to play a full part in the activities of the Institute, as well as working closely with colleagues in the Centre for South Asian Studies, and to give one seminar at IASH and one at the Centre on his/her current research work during their tenure.

Further information, including details of the application process, can be found at http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/fellowships_and_exchanges/charles_wallace_trust_visiting_fellowship
or by emailing South.Asian@ed.ac.uk


Former holders of the CWIT Fellowship at IASH:

Year Name Home Institution Research Topic
1995 Dr. C.S. Patil Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Mysore The Panchatantra in Sculptural Art
1996 Mr. Jayaram Poduval Department of Art History, M.S. University, Baroda The correlation of Christian Art of Kerala and European Art
1997 Dr. Shrinivas Padigar Department of Ancient Indian History & Epigraphy, Karnatak University Vaishnava themes in sculpture
2000 Professor R. Vasantha Department of History, Sri Krishnadevaraya University The Origins of Chess
2002 Dr. Chinna Rao Yagati Educational Records and Research Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Christian Missionaries and the Emergence of Dalit Consciousness: Andhra during late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
2003 Dr. Geetanjali Pandey Writer A collection of short stories about Indian women immigrants
2004 Dr. Awahendra Sharan Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Environment and the Contemporary Urban Experience in Delhi
2006 Dr. Veena Naregal Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi New Cultural Histories: Thematising Bilingualism in Contemporary India
2008 Dr. Rajesh Kumar Department of Political Science, PPN College, Kanpur Revisiting Kargil: Was the Stability/Instability Paradox at Play?
2009 Dr. Arima Mishra Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics The healing practice of Divya Yog
2010 Dr. Modugu Sridhar Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad Scientific Innovations and the State: Making of Agriculture in Colonial and Postcolonial India
2010-11 Dr. Susmita Chatterjee Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi 'Practising' Goddesses, Theorising Feminism: Challenges and Prospects
2011-12 Dr. Piyush Mathur Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla Environmental Citizenship: Lessons from the Contemporary History of India's Tribal Communities.

 

 

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