SICI Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant (SSTSG & STSG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Name of Program | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Prof. Anne Murphy | SSTSG | Co-organizer of workshop, Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab! | Anshu Malhotra (Delhi University) |
| 2016-17 | Anil Prasad | SSTSG | On the synthesis of Cerium(IV) oxide pellets by reactive spark plasma sintering of Cerium(III) oxalate | B.S.Murty (IIT Madras) |
| 2013-14 | Pragya Tiwari | SSTSG | The burden of disease, wellness of society and quality of health care system in India. | National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi |
| 2012-13 | Prof. Julia Cruikshank | STSG | Presented a paper on “The Ongoing Lives of Stories: Persistence of Oral Tradition in Canada’s Far Northwest” | University of Delhi |
| 2012-13 | Dr. Amlan Das Gupta | STSG | Presented a paper on Veblen Preferences and the Falling Calorie Consumption in India: Theory and Evidence | University of Delhi |
| 2009-10 | Prof. Parveen Babbar | STSG | 1) Attended the 2nd International Libraries Conference at the University of British Columbia 2) Delivered two presentations regarding mobile technologies and m-learning in Indian libraries in distance education | Indira Gandhi National Open University |
| 2008-09 | Dr. Dawn Currie | STSG | Attended the International Dialogue on “Citizenship and Civic Education: Pedagogy, Process, and Practice” | University of Delhi |
| 2007-08 | Dr. Diptiranjan Pattanaik | STSG | Presented a paper on "Translating a Colonized Region" at the 21st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies | Banaras Hindu University |
Millennium Development Goals Research Grant (MDG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | Dr. John R. Wood | Poverty Eradication in Rural India: Poverty Reduction and the Community Management of Natural Resources in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh | Dr. Amita Shah & Jharna Pathak- Gujarat (Institute of Development Research (GIDR)) and Dr. Shashidharan Enarth (Development Support Centre) |
Pro Development Initiative Grant (PDIG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | Dr. Kanchan Sarker | Livelihood, Food Security and Urban Poverty in India | Sharit Bhowmik (Labour Education and Research Network (LEARN)) |
Action Research Project Grant (ARPG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | Dr. Kanchan Sarker | Unionization and Inclusive Urban Infrastructure: Blueprints from Mumbai's Female Home-based Workers | Sharit Bhowmik (Labour Education and Research Network (LEARN)) |
SICI Student Excellence Award (SEA)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | Robin Simpson | Life injected with life: Locating Tolerance in Nasreen Mohamedi’s Abstraction |
| 2008-09 | Kieran Findlater | Assessing the Land-Use Impacts of Biodiesel in India |
| 2008-09 | Karen Rideout | Novel Approaches to (re)embedding communities in the food system in Canada and India |
| 2007-08 | Adrienne Fast | Undertaking preliminary language training in Bangla. |
| 2007-08 | Julia Freeman | Bio-safety and the regulation of agricultural biotechnology in India |
| 2007-08 | Michael Windover | Exchanging Looks: ‘Art Dekho’ Movie Theatres in Bombay |
Institutional Research Collaboration Development Project (IRCDG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | Dr. Shafik Dharamsi | Maternal Health Seeking Practices Amongst Women of Low Resource Rural Areas in Melghat, India | Dr. Shakuntala Chhabra (Mahatma Gandhi Inst. of Medical Sciences) |
| 2012-13 | Dr. Kanchan Sarker | Food Security and Hunger in Rural and Urban India: Study of Home Delivery and Cash Transfer System | Dr. Sharit Bhowmik (Tata Institute of Social Sciences / School of Management and Labour Studies) |
Internship Project for Indian Students (IPIS)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | Raymond Joseph | Credit Risk and the Canadian Monetary Policy - Quantitative Analysis | Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
International Youth Internship Program (BYID)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | Sara Baghbannezhad Shishvan | Women Empowerment through Financial Inclusion | Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) |
| 2013-14 | Gagandeep (Gonee) Saini | Attracting and Retaining Youth In Agriculture | M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) |
Shastri Partnership Seed Grant (SPSG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | Dr. Thomas J. Sork | Global Education Leadership Collaboration | Dr. Vasudha Kamat (SNDT Women's University) |
Canadian Studies Visiting Lecture Programme (VLP)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Name of Program | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | Margery Fee | Canadian Studies Visiting Lecturer | JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia, University of Delhi |
Membership Development Fund
| Year | Name of Scholar | Name of Program | Purpose/Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | Prof. Sebastian Prange | Shastri Membership Development Grant (SMDF) | South Asia Conference in the Pacific Northwest |
| 2011-12 | N/A | Membership Development Fund (MDF) | N/A |
India Studies Fellowship Grant (ISF)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Name of Program | Project Title/Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | Dr. Adheesh Avinash Sathaye | India Studies - Faculty Research | The Twenty-Five Tales of the Vetala: A Literary-Cultural Study of a Sanskrit Story Collection |
| 2010-11 | Kiruthika R. | India Studies | Bharata natyam Margam:I have completed my margam in 2004 and since then have learnt quite a few other choreographies. The purpose of my visit to India will be to complete a repertoire which will be composed of an invocation, tanjore quatrte varnam, a few abinaya numbers and a tillana. I want to concentrate my work in India towards developing the abinaya aspects of my dance such as facial expressions, emotions, sublte gestures, eye movements, and emoting from deeper within. |
| 2009-10 | Johnston, Caleb | India Studies - Student Research | The Prospects of Deep Democracy in India: citizenship, development and civil society |
| 2009-10 | Adrienne Fast | India Studies - Student Research | Crafting Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal: Printmaking, Nationalism and Cosmopolitics |
| 2009-10 | Dr. Sunera Thobani | India Studies - Faculty Training | Women’s Studies and Feminist Issues in India |
| 2008-09 | Dr. Ashok Kotwal | India Studies - Faculty Research | The dynamics of rural growth and poverty decline |
India Studies-Library Programme (IS)
| Year | No. of Books |
|---|---|
| 2013-14 | 2,147 |
| 2012-13 | 237 |
| 2011-12 | 2,613 |
| 2010-11 | 3,745 |
| 2009-10 | 1,909 |
| 2008-09 | 2,413 |
| 2007-08 | 2,724 |
Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | M. Shahria Alam | Performance-Based Seismic Design Guideline for Buildings Isolated with Cost Effective FRP-Based Rubber Bearings | Vasant Matsagar (IIT Delhi) |
| 2015-16 | Michelle Stack | Knowledge Mobilization: Expanding Cross-Cultural Conversations about Mental Health and Illness | Anuradha Sovani (SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai) |
Shastri Research Grant (SRG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | Prof. Anne Murphy | Early modern Punjabi: Assessing the Archives | Chander Mohan Punjab University, Dept. of Evening Studies |
Shastri Mobility Programme (SMP)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | Gautam I. Menon | *To facilitate linkages and institutional collaboration; *Initiation of MoU/academic partnership with Canadian or Indian Universities. | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai |
| 2016-17 | Padmini Pani | Water Resource Management (Sustainable river basin Management) | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| 2015-16 | Charru Sharma | Education and Child Development, Arts Education | University of Delhi |
Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Name of Program | Project Title/Activity | Indian Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | Ragini Chakraborty | SRSF – Student | “Why these apologies?” : Interrogating Indo-Canadian Relations through the incidents of the Komagata Maru and the Air India bombing | Jadavpur University |
| 2017-18 | Lakshman Chakrav Nallan Chakravarthula | SRSF – Student | The Effect of Context (Proxemics) On Looking Behaviour of Individuals In Nonverbal Human Communication | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar |
| 2017-18 | Lijo John | SRSF – Doctoral | WASH Clusters For Improved Healthcare During Disaster response | IIM Kozhikode |
| 2017-18 | Reetinder Kaur | SRSF – Post-Doctoral | Traditional healing practices among Punjabi Sikh mental health clients in India and Canada: Insights for counsellors and psychotherapists | Panjab University |
| 2017-18 | Poushali Maji | SRSF – Doctoral | Climate Change, Air Quality and Development: Where are the win-wins (if any)? | IIT Bombay |
| 2017-18 | Dhruv Rathi | SRSF – Student | A Novel Method To Increase Mobile Operating System Security Devising New Adaptive Deep Learning Techniques | Delhi Technological University |
| 2017-18 | Sameena sameena | SRSF – Doctoral | In the grey zone between Itinerant Commercial Exhibitions and Bombay Cinema: Practices and Technologies of Vernacular Photography in North India, 1920-1980s | IIT Kanpur |
| 2017-18 | Ritika Tiwari | SRSF – Doctoral | Role of SPINK1 in neuroendocrine transdifferentiation in prostate cancer | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| 2016-17 | Anusmita Devi | SRSF – Doctoral | Ageing, Body Practices, Gender Subjectivity, and Later life Identities among Older Adults in Urban Settings in India and Canada | IIT Gandhinagar |
| 2016-17 | Kathyrn Sloane Geddes | SRSF – Student | American Institute of Indian Studies Summer Language Program in Sanskrit in Pune, Maharashtra | IIT Mumbai |
| 2016-17 | Sneha Singh | SRSF – Student | Design, Formulation and Pharmacological Evaluation of a Polyherbal Tea Bag -A Green Solution for Hypothyroidism and It’s Associated Disorders | University of Mumbai |
Shastri Publication Grant (SPG)
| Year | Name of Scholar | Title of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | Prof. Sebastian Prange | Monsoon Islam: Trade & Faith On The Medieval |