ECAF Fellowships

The Association has sponsored a wide range of projects in the humanities and social sciences of South Asia. Many of these activities have been possible due to financial support from the British Academy for which we are grateful.

The occupation of structures registered as protected monuments in the cities of Delhi

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr. Deborah Sutton, Senior Lecturer in History, Lancaster University ECAF Centre: Heidelberg University,...

ECAF Fellowships

The spectacular and performative aspects of the Modi government

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr. Simona Vittorini, Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS University of London ECAF Centre: New Delhi I...

ECAF Fellowships

Genre Fiction of New India: post-millennial receptions of ‘weird’ narratives

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr. Emma Dawson Varughese, Associate, Leeds Beckett University ECAF Centre: L’Ecole Francais d’Extreme...

ECAF Fellowships

Gender, Growth and Governance in India

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr Nitya Rao, Professor of Gender & Development, University of East Angli. ECAF Centre: L’Ecole...

ECAF Fellowships

Architecture, Planning and Modernism in Pondicherry & Auroville, Tamil Nadu

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr. Tariq Jazeel, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield ECAF Centre: L’Ecole...

ECAF Fellowships

Anti-colonial political movements in Southern India in the period 1919 – 1947

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr. Andrew Davies, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Liverpool ECAF Centre: L’Ecole Francais...

ECAF Fellowships

Indian Women’s Magazines in the Early 20th Century

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr. Tara Puri, Global Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study/ Department of English, University of...

ECAF Fellowships

Indo-Persian Manuscripts in Chennai and Delhi

ECAF Fellowship report from Dr. Arthur Dudney, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Early-Modern Indian Cultures of Knowledge, Faculty of...

Collaborative Projects

Fragrance, Symmetry and Light: The History of Gardens and Garden Culture in the Deccan

Directors: Dr, Daud Ali (London) and Ms. Emma Flatt (London) in collaboration with the Centre for Deccan Studies (Hyderabad)...

Collaborative Projects

Landscape, Water and Religion in Ancient India

Director: Dr. Julia Shaw, London. Collaborators: Dr. John Sutcliffe, Reading; Mr. Lindsay Lloyd-Smith, Cambridge; Dr. O.P Misra,...

Collaborative Projects

The Indian Temple: Production, Place and Patronage

Directors: Dr. Adam Hardy (Cardiff); Dr Daud Ali (London); Dr Michael Willis (London) in collaboration with Dr O. P....

Collaborative Projects

World Corpus of Amaravati Sculpture

Director: Dr. Akira Shimada, in collaboration with the Archaeological Survey of India Project Asssitant: Ms. Catherine Becker,...

Flagship Projects

Changing Global Geographies of Power and Development

Director: Dr. Emma Mawdsley, Department of Geography and Newnham College, Cambridge This project emerged from a joint project first...

Flagship Projects

Tibetan Buddhist Literature: the Electronic Kangyur

Directors: Burkhard Quessel, The British Library and Professor David Germano, University of Virginia The Tibetan scriptural canon,...

Staff Projects

Udayagiri and the Establishment of the Gods

Directors: Dr. Meera I. Dass, Bhopal and Dr. M. Willis, London, under permission from the Archaeological Survey of India...

Past Projects

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