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Applications Invited for the Inlaks Research and Travel Grant (IRTG) 2025

Organization: The Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Apply By: 31 Aug 2025
About the Organization
Since 1976, The Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation has provided over 1300 Scholarships, Awards, Fellowships, Art Residencies, Internships, and Grants, both abroad and in India.
Our Mission: To look for and support young individuals of exceptional talent, character, and motivation, across a broad range of endeavours. To help bring that talent to fruition by providing high-quality academic, creative, and life-changing opportunities.
By doing so, each personal achievement will benefit the individual and also the wider world.
About the Grant
The Inlaks Research and Travel Grant (IRTG) is awarded to registered PhD students at Indian universities, to undertake short term visits to institutions abroad to collect material, use facilities and consult experts.
This Grant is available to PhD students pursuing research in areas of humanities and social sciences at Indian universities only.
Duration and Value:
The Grant offers support for a maximum of three months to undertake research at an institution, access libraries and meet with experts in the field.
It includes:
- Reasonable travel allowance reimbursable on actuals (up to USD 1,000).
- Maintenance expenses (up to USD 2,000 per month).
- Funds for buying materials and making copies of relevant literature reimbursable on actuals (up to USD 500).
- Health allowance reimbursable on actuals (up to USD 500).
- Any material collected by the candidate using the said allowance (literature, copies, instruments etc.) will become the property of the candidate’s institution for wider use.
Terms of the Grant:
- The visit should be realized within 9 months of the date of award.
- Any material collected by the selected candidates (photocopies, literature etc.) must become the property of the applicant’s institution for wider use by future scholars.
- All the above material must carry a statement regarding the support received from the ‘Inlaks Research and Travel Grant’.
- The applicant’s must submit a written report in a prescribed format to the Inlaks Foundation within a month of their return.
Eligibility
- The applicant must be an Indian passport holder residing in India.
- The applicant must be born on or after 1st January 1990.
- The applicant must be a registered PhD candidate at an Indian university for at least two years but not more than three years at the time of application.
- The applicant must have a first-class Bachelor’s and Master’s degree.
- The applicant must be pursuing a PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences ONLY.
- The applicant must have proof of positive communication from the experts that they wish to engage with.
How to Apply
Deadline: 31st August 2025, 11:59pm (IST)
Selection Process:
The candidate will be expected to go through a two-tier selection process:
- A first round of shortlisting based on a desk review of the written application submitted.
- Second round will be an online interview with a panel of experts.
The applicants short-listed for the interview will be informed by last week of September 2025. The final interviews will be held in early October 2025.
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