ECAF Fellowships
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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,...
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....
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...
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
Anuradhapura Excavations: The Citadel (1989-94)
Directors: Professor Robin Conningham, University of Durham; Dr Raymond Allchin, University of Cambridge The UNESCO world...
Electronic Mahabharata
Director: Dr. John Smith, University of Cambridge Dr John Smith has converted the entire Sanskrit text of the Mahabharata...
Kashika Project
Supervisors: Saroja Bhate, Pune University; Pascale Haag-Bernède, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris; Vincenzo...
Paithan and the Early Temple Tradition in Maharashtra
Director: Dr. Derek Kennet, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham with the Archaeological Survey of India Paithan is a...