Award of fellowship, IIAS (Indian Institute of Advanced Study) Shimla
Last Date : 30 November, 2013

For details: http://www.iias.org/Advertisement_Fellowship_2013.pdf

Tagore Centre for the Study of Culture and Civilization

AWARD OF FELLOWSHIPS

1. Applications are invited for award of of Fellowships in the Tagore Centre for the Study of Culture and Civilization.

2. The Tagore Centre is not a Tagore Study Centre which aims at studying just Tagore’s work and thoughts though such a study is one of its important activities.

3. The Centre provides research opportunities to the practitioners of culture and civilization who are engaged with concerns similar to those which preoccupied Tagore such as education, environment, artistic and literary imagination, participatory development, nationalism, cultural influences, reconciliation, philosophy and humanism, science and society. Such engagement may involve textual study of his work, or a creative engagement with his literary imagination or with his experiments in music, dance, and painting, or practicing innovative ideas in education and environment in the urban and rural context, or simply with larger implications and possibilities of his vision.

4. The Centre allows for reflective and creative engagement with the human condition by exploring new idiom of art, poetry and music. It thus provides space to scholars as well as the practicing artists/artistes to signal Tagore’s deep engagement with culture and civilization founded on his belief in the oneness of his world.

5. The Centre aims to initiate South-South intellectual and cultural exchange and has, therefore, been set up with the objective of serving as a site for dialogue between India and the world.

6. In all four Fellowships will be awarded out of which one is for either a poet, or a writer, or an artist-in-residence; one for a scholar from outside India; while the remaining two are general.

The guidelines for the Fellows in the Tagore Centre are as under:

a) Since the Institute is committed to Advanced Study, proposals involving empirical work with data collection and fieldwork will not be considered.

b) Applications from scholars working in, and on, the North Eastern region are encouraged.

c) Scholars belonging to the weaker section of society, and those who are differently abled/physical challenged, will also be given preference.

d) The Institute will evaluate and consider for publication the monographs of the Fellows submitted on completion of their term. The Institute will have the first right of publication and will have the copyright of the monograph submitted by the Fellow.

e) The maximum period of Fellowship is two years. A Fellow seeking extension for the second year will have to submit a Progress Report of the work done at the end of nine months which would be sent for evaluation to an outside expert. Only on the positive report of the Evaluator will a Fellow be granted extension for the second year.

f) The prescribed application form can be downloaded from the website: www.iias.org The application on the prescribed form may reach the Secretary, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 171005 by 30 November 2013. Applications can also be made on line. Only applications in the prescribed application form would be considered by the Institute.

g) Fellows would be expected to remain in residence from 1st March to 15th December. Their stay at the Institute during the winter months will be optional. They may proceed on Study Tours during this period.

h) The pay of in-service Fellows will be protected. In addition, they will also get 20 per cent of their basic pay in case they are maintaining a separate house at the place of their work, other than government accommodation. The Fellowship grant for Fellows who are independent scholars is Rs. 51700/- per month.

i) The Institute provides hard furnished rent free accommodation to Fellows in cottages on the Rashtrapati Nivas Estate. In addition, scholars will be provided a personal fully furnished study (which may be on sharing basis) with computer and Internet facilities.

j) The Fellows will be provided with free stationary. In addition, they will have access to Institute's vehicles for local travel on payment of nominal charges.

k) Fellows are entitled to free medical treatment at the dispensary of the Institute.

l) It is mandatory for in-service candidates to apply through proper channel.

m) Fellowship applications of scholars who have been a Fellow of the Institute within a period of last five years will not be considered.

The short-listed scholars will be invited to make a presentation before the Fellowship Award Committee. Scholars with proven academic credentials, as decided by Screening Committee, may be exempted from this provision. Those interested can get further details from the Academic Resource Officer of the institute. He is available on e-mail at [email protected] and may be contacted on 0177-2831385.