Research Funding Schemes

Research Projects
( Research Funding Rules for Research Projects - Chapture-3)

Maximum of Rs 2,50,000. It is awarded for a research project in History or on a theme substantively including an aspect or aspects of History. It should be undertaken under a scholar, who will be designated as Project Director.

List of Grants Awarded
(April 2008 - March 2009)

Research Projects 2008-2009
Ongoing Research Projects 2008-2009

(October2007 - March 2008)

Research Projects grant has been granted to the following persons:

1. Smt. Nupur Chaudhuri (Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata), The Modern World Discourse on Sex, Oriental Erotology and the Transformation of the Private Sphere: Sexuality, Emotion and Culture in Late Colonial Bengal and India (Rs. 1 Lakh)
2. Dr Arupjyoti Saikia (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Gauhati), The Life and Times of Historian Surya Kumar Bhuyan: A Study into the Professionalization of Modern Historical Research in the 20th Century Assam (Rs 1 Lakh)
3. Dr. Manohar Singh Ranawat (Natnagar Shodh Sansthan, Sitamau, Malwa, MP), Chittor-Udaipur ka Patnama, Vols III and IV( Rs 1 lakh).
4. Dr. Ajay Kumar Pandey (Hiralal Ramnivas Post Graduate College, Khalilabad, Sant Kabir Nagar), A Historical Study of Socio-Economic Changes in Eastern Uttar Pradesh (Pre-History period upto Early Medieval Period) (Rs.50,000/-)
5. Dr. T.H. Robert Tiba ( Silchar, Assam), British Relations with the Frontier Tribes: A Case Study of the Anglo-Naga Relations between 1852-1948 (Rs. 1 lakh)
6. Dr Rekibuddin Ahmed(Gauhati University, Gauhati), Investigation and Collection of Source Materials of Persian for the Medieval History of Assam (AD 1206-AD 1682) (Rs 1 lakh)
7. Shri Farooque Ahmed (Dist. Thoubal, Manipur), A Historical Study of Clan Formation Among Muslims in Manipur (1606-1850) (Rs 1 lakh)
8. Professor K.S.S. Seshan (Gulmohar Park, Hyderabad ), Early Anti-British Revolts in Andhra (1766-1857) (Rs 1,42,000)
9. Secretary, Indian History Congress ( Professor B.P. Sahu, Delhi University, Delhi), for organizing symposium on Forms of Anti Colonial Resistance in India (Rs.50,000/-).
10. The Secretary, Indian History Congress ( Professor B.P. Sahu, Delhi University, Delhi), publication grant for publishing the Proceedings of the 67th Session of Indian History Congress held in Khozikode (Kerala) (Rs 1,50,000/-)
11. The Secretary, Indian History Congress ( Professor B.P. Sahu, Delhi University, Delhi), grant for holding the 68th Session of the Indian History Congress (Rs 1,60,000).
12. Professor Shakti Kak ( Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi), special grant for screening a film on Beyond Partition (Rs.22, 200/-).
13. Dr P.C. Venkatasubbiah (Dravidian University, Distt. Chittoor, AP), Investigations into the Neolithic and Megalithic Culture of the Lower Tungabhadra Region(Rs 95,000/-).
14. Dr Kiran Kranth Choudhary (Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati), Siva in Mythology and Art of Andhradesa(Rs 75,000/-).