South Asia Initiative 2007 Grantees

The South Asia Initiative Congratulates its 2007 Grantees. Click here for award details.

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GRADUATE STUDENT GRANTS

Tata Study Grants:

Sana Aiyar: South Asian diaspora in colonial Kenya and post-colonial Britain;
Tariq Ali: The professionalization of economics in Indian universities;
Michael Allen: Intensive Summer Sanskrit study in Pune;
Mary Anderson: Religious representation in Ajanta and Ellora caves;
Rita Banerjee: Post-WWII poetry and ideas of aethsetics;
Garga Chatterjee : Documentation and analysis of post-1975 student political activism;
Alison Comfort: Impact of community-based health insurance schemes on the use of health services and provision of financial risk protection to the poor in India;
Antara Datta: War, violence and displacement during the 1971 Bangladesh war;
Ujala Dhaka: Spaces of multi-religious engagement in the city of Mumbai;
Victoria Fan: Sustainability evaluation of SEWA Health Cooperative's primary income-generating activities;
Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi: An Intellectual Biography of Abu'l Fazl;
Mari Jyvasjarvi: Buddhist and Jain nuns in pre-modern India;
Mana Kia: Negotiations of affiliation and difference within Persianate culture;
Kris Manjapra: Indian modernity, 1920-1960;
Arthur McKeown: The life of the 15th century abbot of Bodhgaya, Sariputra;
Vipin Narang: Comparative study of the sources and consequences of 'middle power' nuclear doctrines, with India and Pakistan as critical case studies;
Paul Niehaus: Developing new financial products to improve access for the rural poor and test economic theory;
Ketaki Pant: An archival and ethnographic study of the East Africa diaspora in Western India;
Sandhya Polu : Public health policy formation in British India from 1892-1939, emphasizing the interplay between the international public health arena and the decision-making process in India;
Semil Shah : Comparative analysis in the advancement of two economic enterprises - the new special economic zones (SEZs) in India and the township and village enterprises (TVEs) in China;
Nico Slate: Connections between African-American and South Asian freedom struggles;
Fabrice Smieliauskus: A field experiment in rural India on selecting and incentivizing volunteers to improve community nutrition;
Gitanjali Surendran: Nangiar Koothu, a women's dance-drama form in Kerala, India.

S.A.I - Asia Center Study Grants :

Stephanie Spray: An ethnographic research and video project with a caste of itinerant musicians in Nepal.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GRANTS:

Tata Study Grants:

Nitesh Banta: Investigate the barriers faced when integrating a non-corporeal punishment approach to classroom management in Bhagad;
Kristijonas Bartkus: Senior honors thesis research into rural well finance, and strategies to overcome suboptimal investment outcomes;
Simi Bhat: Thesis: Environmental identity in internally displaced persons of Kashmiri origin;
Caroline Gogolak: Indian textile industry;
Neha Gupta: Human Rights Law Internship: field research; advocacy; public interest casework regarding gender, caste and religious minorities, people living with HIV/AIDS;
Aneesh Kulkarni: Study business plan & expansion proposals with NGO providing emergency medical services infrastructure in suburban India;
Aria Laskin: The implications of Indian nationalist publications produced by British and Indian feminists;
Daniel Littlejohn-Carillo: A comparative study of revolutionary movements' adaptation to government in Nepal and Cuba;
Irina Mladanova: Socio-economic impacts of the IT industry in Bangalore;
Joshua Neff: Study of the impact of tourism on local development in Arunachal Pradesh , India;
Francisco Perese: Franchising Microfinance banks in India : A study of sustainability and implementation;
Alexandra Perkins: Study at a language school for two weeks; volunteer with an NGO to promote environmental sustainability and women's rights;
Neesha Rao: American Christian Missionaries in India.

S.A.I. Study Grants:

Nasser Hussain: Islamic religious revival among young British Muslims, exploring generation gap and political participation;
Aditi Mallick: An exploration of Primary Health Care Policy and delivery in Nepal;
Astha Thapa: Summer thesis research in Nepal on its political history and prospects of democratic consolidation in the future;
Rajiv Venkataramanan: Ethnic chauvinism and ethnic nationalism on orphaned children in Sri Lankan conflict.

Victor and Tara Menezes Service in India Internships:

Mary Allison: BASIX microfinance, Hyderabad;
Jessamin Birdsall: Kachhwa Hospital, Uttar Pradesh;
Michael Codini: South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center, New Delhi;
Pamela Freed: Ujjivan, Bangalore;
Paayal Gupta: Indicorps preventative health, Rajasthan;
Yingying Huang: Indicorps India service initiative, Gujarat;
Anjuli Kannan: Indicorps relevant rural technology, Rajasthan;
Anna Kendrick: Indicorps India service initiative, Gujarat;
Katherine Prescott: BASIX microfinance, Hyderabad;
Dillshoda Yergasheva: Mann Deshi microfinance, Maharashtra.

S.A.I. Film Internships:

Lillian Erlinger
Naseem Makiya
Andrew Wesman

S.A.A. – S.A.I. Ghungroo Internship:

Neel Butala: SEWA, Ahmedabad.

Study in India Grant:

Catherine Bevilacqua
Nan Ransohoff

Awards reception held Friday, May 11th, 2007.

David Good, Chief Representative, The Tata Group, with Prof. Sugata Bose, Director of the South Asia Initiative.