Charles
Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellowship
(Edinburgh, Scotland)
The Charles Wallace Foundation
proposes to award a Visiting Fellowship to be held simultaneously
in the Centre for South Asian Studies Scotland and the Institute
for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)
at the University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh is one of the
four leading centres for South Asian Studies in the U.K. and runs
a lively and active seminar and conference programme supporting
the needs of scholars working on South Asia in Scotland as a whole.
Edinburgh Univervisty has a library
well equipped with secondary and priamry sources relating to South
Asia as well as offering convenient access to the National
Library and Archives
of Scotland. It is also a mere 4 hours and 15 minutes by train from
the British National Library in London. For details of the holdings
of the National Library of Scotland please see http://www.nls.uk/collections/foreign/south_asian.html
and also A guide to MSS in the British Isles relating to South
and Southeast Asia , by J. D. Pearson. Volume 2, (London: Mansell,
1990).
The Institute
for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was established to promote
interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences
at the University of Edinburgh. It seeks to bring about collegial
dialogue and to further collaborative research by maintaining a
number of Fellowship schemes, by conducting regular programs of
Seminars (to which the Fellow will contribute), and by developing
overarching Research Themes though which interactions with the local
research community may be structured.
We aim to have a shortlist
of three for this appointment. The closing date for applications
is the end of APRIL so that the candidate can be in residence as
early as possible in the following academic year (the academic year
runs from September until May only). The age range is up to 45 -
i.e. younger to middle scholars, not those already well established.
The subject area is 'Contemporary
History' - which covers a broad field including political activism,
journalism, historiography, historical anthropology and research
addressing cultural, political, social and economic change in South
Asia in recent decades. This is research appointment and whilst
in Edinburgh you are expected to undertake a combination of writing and research
on your chosen topic.
Applicants must be Indian citizens, resident, and pursuing their academic careers in India.
The Fellowship covers
international fares (preferably arranged through the British Council
in India, who may also arrange a free visa for the successful candidate)
and the Fellow will receive a grant for living expenses upon arrival
which is currently at the monthly rate of £1125, which is
paid over a period of three months. A small amount is also available
for incidental expenses.
The Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities will provide office faciltiies and arrange
accommodation for the duration of the Fellow's period of residence.
Your application, preferably by e-mail
to South.Asian@ed.ac.uk, should include
a summary of your academic career (curriculum vitae),
references from individuals familiar with your work, and a proposal outling
your interests, and the writing or research that you propose
to undertake whilst resident in Edinburgh, including an explanation
of why Edinburgh in particular is an appropriate venue for
you to pursue this research (eg. listing possible collaborators and
relevent library and archival resources). References can
be sent seperately, but preferably again will arrive by e-mail. It is important
that you and your referees apply to email address South.Asian@ed.ac.uk and
to no other.
For further information
about the Centre, please access our website at http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk.
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