Sage scholarship
Scholarship in social sciences

New Delhi, January 19: Additional Fellowship in 2010: SAGE announces the addition of a third fellowship in social sciences in 2010. Proposals in the areas of social justice—including individual rights, changing lifestyles and the significance of an expanded educated class would be preferred. Preference will be given to proposals that are interdisciplinary in scope. For the purposes of this award social sciences comprise economics, economic and social history, political science, psychology, sociology and social anthropology.

Presiding Panel: Rolf Lynton, T N Madan, Surendra Munshi, Bhikhu Parekh, T V Rao, Jagdish Sheth, Arvind Singhal, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Romila Thapar.

Duration: One year with a stipend of Rs 50,000 a month + Rs 50,000 for travel. There are no restrictions of theme or ideology but the work must contribute to an understanding or an advancement of the subject in South Asia. The principal brief to the fellows is to author a book on their chosen subject of research at the end of the fellowship. The book may be published by the scholar’s choice of publisher with due acknowledgement to the Tejeshwar Singh Memorial Fellowships for supporting the research.

Eligibility: Open to nationals of South Asian (SAARC) countries, including those currently resident overseas. Candidates must be below 40 years of age on April 1, 2010.

Submission Guidelines: Applicants are invited to submit their curriculum vitae, a research proposal and a 5000 word sample of their writing. The last date for receipt of applications is March 31, 2010.

Award of Fellowship: The applications for each fellowship will be vetted by a jury of four experts including one representative of SAGE. The award of the fellowships will be announced in June 2010.

The suggested scope of fellowship in the social Sciences:
• Persisting injustices that undermine social cohesion;
• Exploitation, discrimination or empowerment of non-privileged groups/individuals in the setting of inegalitarian social formations (rural women at home and lower middle class working women in urban locales);
• Persons of minority groups in modern institutional contexts;
• Problems of domestic/institutional care of the elderly in the setting of increasing longevity, shrinking domestic space and escalating health care costs;
• Efforts of religious organizations to influence/control (e.g. through social education and magazines) the values and lifestyles of their respective communities;
• Impact of parental lifestyles in upwardly mobile families on the value preferences and career ambitions of high school children;
• Social, political and economic dimensions of a rapidly expanding publishing industry in India.