Research Funding Schemes

Senior Fellowships (for two years)
( Research Funding Rules for Senior Fellowship - Chapter 2)

Senior Fellows get Rs 8,000 per month with a contingency grant of Rs 36,000 per annum. It is awarded to a senior scholar who has established his/her academic reputation through published research work.

List of Grants Awarded
(April 2008 - March 2009)

Senior Research Fellowships 2008-2009
A) Ongoing Senior Research Fellowships 2008-2009

(October2007 - March 2008)

Senior Fellowship has been granted to the following persons:

1. Dr. Prem Choudhury( Roop Nagar, Delhi), Gender Power and Identity: Understanding Masculinities in Rural North India.
2. Dr. (Mrs.) S.L. Baruah( Dibrugarh, Assam), Evolution of Historiography in Assam till Independence.
3. Professor D.K. Bhattacharya( Patpar Ganj, Delhi), Emergence of Early Farming in India in the Light of Cultural Dynamics of Contemporary Hunter-gatherer Communities.
4. Dr.(Mrs.) Prabha Ravi Shankar( Malad[West], Mumbai), G.A. Natesan(1873 to 1949): and National Awakening.
5. Mrs. Premalata Pokharana ( Jaipur, Rajasthan), History of North India from 5th to 12th Century A.D. based on Coins, Epigraphs, Literature, etc.