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Endowed Scholarships

The friends and family of Agehananda Bharati established a memorial grant in his honor in the early 1990s. Each year, one to three awards of up to $1500 are made to doctoral students in the Maxwell School for research leading to their dissertation research on South Asia. A competition is held each spring, with applications due around March 15. Announcements of the competition will be made in January, with precise guidelines and application procedures given at that time.

1993

  • Yamuna Sangarasivam for dissertation research in Sri Lanka

1994

  • Sunil Khanna for dissertation research and writing on cultural factors in pregnancy outcomes in India

1995

  • Aarti Saihjee for fieldwork on women and economic liberalization in Jharkhand, India

1997

  • ·Aarti Saihjee for dissertation writing on women and economic liberalization in Jharkhand

2000

  • Sally Steindorf, required fees to participate in the year long Hindi program in Udaipur India, run by the American Institute of Indian Studies plus funds for pre-dissertation fieldwork on globalization in rural India
  • Katy Rudder to attend training project on literacy for adult women

2000

  • Amrita Banerjee, History, for research on public reactions to India’s age of marriage acts
  • Angela Herrald, Anthropology, for research on religious tourism to India
  • Katy Rudder, Anthropology, for research on literacy programs in India
  • Samapita Dey, History, for research on Bengali literature in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Keerthana Bidappa, Social Sciences, for research on Anglo-Indian reactions to the diaspora
  • Lisa Knight, Anthropology, for research on western interpretations of the Bauls

2004

  • Sharmadip Basu, Social Science
  • Vikas Choudhary, Anthropology
  • Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury, History

2005

  • Payal Banerjee, Sociology, for doctoral research on Indian IT workers in the U.S.
  • Kasturi Gupta, Sociology, for doctoral research on corporate capital and the politics of      HIV/AIDS in India
  • Sanjukta Mukherjee, Geography, for doctoral research on the historiography of the global software industry, and the role of India in it.

2006

  • Jamie Johnson, Anthropology
  • William Kuracina, History
  • Bandita Sijapati, Social Science
  • Moushumi Shabnam, Anthropology