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 List
of Award Holders :2000-2001
| 1. |
Miss Sina Panja |
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Fellow, Centre for Archaeological
Studies and Training, Calcutta, for materials relating to her study
of archaeological research in 1930-50, the era preceding and
succeeding India's independence; |
2001-2002
| 1. |
Dr Bishnupriya Basak |
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Research Fellow, Centre for
Archaeological Studies & Training, Kolkata, to study different
methods of interpreting human behaviour from archaeological
artefacts, taking stone tools in the Indian context as the focus, at
the Institute of Archaeology, London. |
2002-2003
| 1. |
Mrs Satarupa Dutta |
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Co-ordinator & Research
Scholar, Crafts Council of West Bengal, Kolkata, for her study of
Satgaon quilts (Indo-Portuguese trade textiles from Bengal) and
related materials in the V&A and other UK institutions; |
| 2. |
Dr J Raja Mohamed |
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Curator, Government Museum,
Pudukkottai, Tamilnadu, for a study of ritual objects, vessels,
tools etc of South India, in the collections of the V&A Museum,
London; |
| 3. |
Drrangachar Vasantha |
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Professor of History, Sri
Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, for materials
pertaining to research on the contribution of Krishnadevaraya
Wodeyar III to the field of board games and chess, in the V&A
Museum, the British Museum and the British Library, London. |
2003-2004
| 1. |
Dr Sangeeta Dasgupta |
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Lecturer, Department of History,
Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, to study the concept of the
Tribe' by means of an analysis of images of the orient in European
museum and colonial records. |
2004-2005
| 1. |
Mrs Parul Pandhya Dhar |
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Assistant Professor, National
Museum Institute, to examine and document the Solanki period torana
fragments in the V&A; |
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