Impart & Nalli Fellowships 2027-2028 – YOA

Deadline: August 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Impart & Nalli Fellowships 2027-2028. The Impart & Nalli Fellowships helps South Asia-based initiatives that generate new curiosity within the area’s textile practices amongst various audiences. The Fellowships mix Nalli Silks’ focus space of textile manufacturing and design with the Impart’s imaginative and prescient of fostering incisive analysis within the study of artwork histories from South Asia.

This Fellowship helps analysis into underexplored textile-associated histories, practices, and traditions throughout South Asia. Applicants could suggest initiatives on any textile-centric topic. The following areas of analysis are inspired:

• Textiles in spiritual, literary, liturgical, and mythological contexts
• Environmental influence of textile manufacturing and consumption  
• Endangered or disappearing textile traditions
• Critical views on textile revivalism, digitisation, archives, and materials afterlives
• Labour in textile manufacturing, with specific consideration to caste, class, and gender
• Relationships between textiles and different cultural types, together with storytelling, poetry, music, structure, and materials tradition
• Techniques, applied sciences, and instruments related to particular textile traditions
• South Asian textiles inside the up to date world design economic system
• Intellectual property, possession, and cultural rights in textile manufacturing
• Socio-cultural views on the connection between handmade and industrial textiles

Benefits

• Two Research Fellowships shall be awarded, every carrying a grant of INR 5.5 lakhs to assist one yr of impartial analysis and mission growth.

Eligibility

• Open to candidates aged 18 years or older, residing wherever on the earth, whose proposed initiatives interact with textile practices throughout the broader South Asia area.
• They welcome functions from early- and mid-profession researchers, designers, archivists, journalists, writers, educators, practitioners, collectives, and small organisations.

Supported Project Formats

The Fellowship helps a variety of consequence codecs, together with however not restricted to:

• Journalistic inquiry
• Documentary movie
• Archive activation
• Practice-based analysis
• Archive technology
• Digitisation and documentation initiatives
• Exhibition or ebook initiatives

Application

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For extra data, go to Impart & Nalli Fellowships.