Grants and Fellowships

Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at School of History, University of Leeds (2024-25) 

UC Associate Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2024) for the project titled, “Alternate Models of Traditional Family Structures in Post-Independence Anglophone Fiction”

IASH Visiting Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh (2022-23) for her project titled, "A Decolonial Reading of Gender-based Violence in Select Subaltern Fiction in India”

Career 360 Commendable faculty award in the domain of Arts and Humanities at 2nd Faculty Research Award 2023

AHRC-Funded Diaspora Screen Media Network (DSMN), Birmingham City University, UK for project titled, “In Search of Agency and Self: Mapping Gendered Conjugal Violence in Diasporic Diegesis” (2022) https://www.bcu.ac.uk/media/research/research-groups/creative-industries/research-projects/diaspora-screen-media-network/creative-awards-projects (Online)

Received JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship (2021-22) for proposal entitled, "Re-storying Widowhood: The (In) Visible Lives of the Bastuhara Nari of Varanasi"

Shastri Conference & Lecture Series Grant (SCLSG) to organize an International Conference titled, "Cartographies of Gender-based Violence: Literary Reflections from South Asia and Beyond". (2021-2022) 12th -13th March 2022 (Online)

UNC-Chapel Hill ‘Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)’ grant with Pamela Lothspeich, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies for UNC Course: ASIA 721-Transnational Feminisms of the Middle East and South Asia, Fall 2021 https://global.unc.edu/programs/coil/ (Online)

Workshop Grant from Gender Resource Centre, Government of Bihar for coordinating “Gender Orientation Workshop” April 1, 2017

Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fellowship for Doctoral Studies (2009) administered by Teen Murti Bhawan, New Delhi

Received DST grant of 45,000,00 (Forty-five lakhs) as Co-PI with Prof. Nirmala Menon as PI for project titled, "Digital preservation of the Rare Historic Perso-Arabic Sindhi books into Audiobooks: An initiative to Revitalize the Sindhi Language and Literature in India" (2024) 

Received JPN Centre grant of 6,00,000 INR (Six lakhs only) for sponsored project with IIT Indore titled “Digitizing Madhubani: Archiving the Socio-Cultural History of Bihar” (R&D/SP/HSS/DMA/2023-24/872) (2023)

Received ICSSR grant of 3,30,000 INR (Three lakhs thirty thousand only) for research-based monograph on ‘Empirical Understanding of the Social Impact of Mann Ki Baat’ under the theme “Responding Artistic Diversity: Champion of Art and Culture” (ICSSR- MKB/Monographs/3-2023) (2023)

Received project grant of 40,59,775 INR (Forty lakhs fifty-nine thousand seven hundred seventy-five only) from SPARC. The project is titled, “Precarious Lives, Postcolonial Fiction and the Anthropocene” (SPARC/2019-2020/P2390/SL) (2023)

Received ICSSR major research grant of 7,00,000 INR (Seven lakhs only) for project titled “Archiving Gender Inclusivity: Documenting Female Deities of the Janjatis from Select States of the Gangetic Belt" against special call for Studies of the Culture, History, and Geography of the Scheduled Tribes of India (02/117/2022-23/GN/TS/RP) (ongoing)

Received a project as PI of 500 pound (INR 50000 approx) from AHRC-DSMN Network, Birmingham City University UK for the project titled, "“In Search of Agency and Self: Mapping Gendered Conjugal Violence in Diasporic Diegesis”, 2022. (Completed)

Received project grant of 5 00,000 INR (Five lakhs only) from ICSSR against Special Call for COVID-19. The project is titled, “Mapping Domestic Abuse and Violence in the time of Covid-19: A Study from Bihar” (COVID/266/29/2020-21/ICSSR), 2021 (Completed)

Use of Integrated Pedagogies to Enhance Communication Skills of Engineering Students in Bihar (2019-2021), sponsored by TEQIP Collaborative Research Scheme