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 Dr. Sumit Dahiya
Designation- Fellow
Email- sumitdahiya2009@gmail.com
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Duration of Fellowship Aug 2020 to Aug 2022
Research Project Women Singers of Western Rajasthan: Art, Patronage, and Community Life.
About: Dr. Sumit is a historian and currently working as a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She proposes to examine a Post Doctoral Fellowship on ‘Women Singers of Western Rajasthan: Art, Patronage, and Community Life. She did her Ph. D on “Occupational Groups, Organization of Production and Pattern of Textile Production in the Royal Karkhanas of the Jaipur Rulers during the Eighteenth Century” from IGNOU, New Delhi. She is Familiar with languages like English, Hindi, Urdu, and Rajasthani. Before joining IIAS, Shimla, she worked with Maharaja Man Singh Pustak Prakash Research Centre, Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan for the past four years. It is a storehouse of archived and non-archived published and unpublished literature and manuscripts which helps in rediscovering the history and cultural heritage of Rajasthan. Dr Sumit is well versed with the Rajasthani manuscripts and skilled in proof-editing, writing journals, and research papers. She has been actively presenting research papers that dealt with social, economic, and administrative aspects of society embedded with Rajasthan's history. She is honored with publishing research articles for esteemed journals and yearly proceedings on national and international levels. She has extended a major contribution to the bi-yearly magazine ‘INTACH’, involving writing articles and proof-editing of the journal. She has also actively organized conferences and workshops and also, chaired technical sessions.

Grants / Awards:
IIAS, Shimla – Post Doctoral Fellowship - (2020-22) on ‘Women Singers of Western Rajasthan: Art, Patronage, and Community Life.

AAS, United States of America
Travel Grant for paper presentation on “Negotiating Occupation and Status in the Pre-Colonial Era: Artisans in the Eighteenth Century”.

Rajasthan History Congress 2019
Rao Ganpat Singh Chitalwana Prize for best paper on ‘Nayat Panchayats of textile artisan in Marwar during 18th Century’.

ICHR - Post-Doctoral Research Project in 2018 -2019
“Economic and Social Condition of Textile Artisans in Marwar during the 18th Century (A Study Based on Archival Sources).”

UNESCO - Research Fellowship in 2017
“Jaipur Royal Textiles and Costumes, based on Karkhanajat records.”

IGNOU - Junior Research Fellowship- 2013- 2015
“Occupational Groups, Organization of Production and Pattern of Textile Production in the Royal Karkhanas under the Jaipur Rulers During the 18th Century.”

ICHR - Junior Research Fellowship - 2010-12
“Occupational Groups, Organization of Production and Pattern of Textile Production in the Royal Karkhanas under the Jaipur Rulers During the 18th Century.”