RESEARCH

Research Award, 'Environment, disease and medicine: Changing practices among Adivasis of eastern India, 1850s- 1990s', Rockefeller Research Center, New York, USA, 2018.

Coordinator of the inter-University project “Marginalised histories, alternative development: Identity history movements, and the politics of development of subaltern communities in India” (Accordo Interuniversitario Internazionale 2015 Sapienza-Jawaharlal Nehru University) - 2015-16.

Principal Investigator of research project funded by the Indian Council of Historical Research entitled “Colonialism, Christianisation and Change among the Savaras of Ganjam District (1890-1965)” - 2011-13.

Research grant from Charles Wallace India Trust for research in the UK, 2009.

Minor Research Project Grant from the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, 1997-99.

British Council Research Award for research in the British Library, UK, March-June 1997.

Travel and Contingency Award, Indian Council of Historical Research,1996-1998.

University Grants Commission (New Delhi) Junior Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Calcutta, 1991-92.

Participation in collaborative research project

2016 Member, Research programme on “Il Subcontinente indiano e l’incontro con l’altro”, Principal Investigator: R. Torella

2015 Member, Research programme on “Radicalism, religious identity, politics of power in South Asia”, Principal Investigator: G. Milanetti

2011 Member, Research programme on “Uomo e natura in India: rappresentazione, riflessione, identità”, Principal Investigator: R. Torella

2006 Member, Research programme on “Aspects of the Environmental History of India”, University Grants Commission, New Delhi and Centre for Social Sciences & Humanities, Calcutta University, Principal Investigator: A.Bandopadhyay