Sarai annually supported approximately 20 young research scholars through a short-term studentship to facilitate research on urban life in South Asia.
2002-2003
Anand Vivek Taneja- An Archeology of Memory
J. Indira- Labouring in the City: Dalit Women in Demeaning Occupations
Jabir Ali- Waste Utilization and Management of Slaughterhouses in the Metropolitan City of Delhi and its Impact on the Environment
Joanna Pereira– Linguistic Mobilizations in Postcolonial Urban Goa
K.S. Arul M M Selvan- Online Chatting: Future of Public Spaces – Ethnographic Perspective
Kalyan Kumar– The Evolution of the City and its Regime: A Case Study of Jamshedpur c. 1920-1960
Manu Agarwal– ‘Address’ and ‘Mental Map’ as Codes to Perception of the Urban Space in Palimpsest Cities
Mriganka Madhukaillya– The Great Divide: The Politics of Location
Nitin Sinha- Railways and the Changing Rural-Urban Interface: A Case Study of a Railway Town, Jamalpur, c. 1860-1930
P. Sudarshan- Planned and Unplanned Processes of Urbanization in Bangalore: A Comparative Study of Two Areas
Polly Hazarika– Urban Educational Practices
Ravi Kumar– Urban Social Movements in the Age of Globalization: Studying the Changing Patterns of Cultural and Social Mobilization in Cities
Ravindra Karnena– City and its Heterotopia: An Investigation into the Annual Industrial Exhibition in Hyderabad
Rutul Joshi– A Comparative Study of Contemporary City Structures
Sheema Fatima– Chowks in Munger
Shruti Tambe– City through the Prism of Movements : Aurangabad from 1948 to 1998
Srabanti Bhattacharya– Kolkata’s Water Supply: A Historical Perspective
Students from the M.A. Programme in Sociology– Usurped Freedom – Women Students, Safety and City Space
Sujithkumar Parayil– Visualization of the Colonial Urbanism
Swati Dyahadroy– Gender and Hindutva in Pune City: Documenting Women’s Participation in Jnana Prabodhini
Vinoj Abraham– Labour in Globalising Cities
2003-2004
Manoj Kumar- Nabbe ke Dashak main Jansatta avam Navbharat Times main Prakashit Film Samiksha ka Dastabejikaran avam vishleshan [Hindi]
Shvetal Vyas- Religion and Homosexuality in the City : Mahesh Dattani and the Urban
Jayani Bonnerjee– (No title) on neighbourhood pattern and urban planning in Calcutta
Sumit Roy and Saumya B.Verma– Architecture of Sociability : Workers Co-operative Coffee Houses of Delhi
The Tent and Mohan Singh Place Coffee House : A Case Study
Arpita Guha Thakurata– Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta : City as the Site for Regression and Radicalism
Dhara Radia– Institutional and Legal Framework for Urban Private Water Market: Ahmedabad City
Jerry Cherian– Living in Heritage : The Fontainhas Festival in Panjim
Udita Bhargava and Meghana Singh– Digital Delhi
Syed Khalid Jamal– To study the work Culture at Fast Food Chains and its implications
Anupam Pachauri– Paigam Sarkar Bahadur Ka: Rajya aivam Samaj ka ishteharon dwara sanrachit ek portrait [Hindi]
N.R.Levin- Body Odor as Social Order in Colonial and Post Colonial Kerala
Sirisha Indukuri– Perspectives from Environmental Sociology/Anthropology for the Study of Urban Ecology
Osamazaid Rahman- Epidemics, Communities and the Colonial Urban Policy, Calcutta 1872-1941
Aparna Malviya– The Future of Public Space( Lok Sthano Ka Bhavisya)
2004-2005
Priyahsa Kaul – And the Earth still shakes….communal violence and exclusionary urbanism
Aasim Khan and Shweta Pandit– Identity and Enterprise in Shani Bazaar
Bindu Menon– Shadow Lines: Cinema, Public Entertainment and Social Space in Early 20th century Thiruvithamkoor
Sushmita Ghosh -Reshaping Masculinity: A stylization of Male Culture
Vinita Verma -City in Order: Some Aspects of Urban Development in Delhi
Ninad Pandit -Public Arena Mumbai: An Archive/ repository of imaginations of publics in mumbai
Gaurav Dikshit and Rajiv GV– Migration into Dr Mukherjee Nagar: Everyday Practices and Relationships with Space
Manasi Kumar- Mapping the Agape: Following the footprints of the rubble of riot and violence of earthquake
Justin Mathew– Labour in a colonial Port city: Construction workers of Cochin port 1920- 1940
Nishant– Mitti ke log (Potters of Delhi)
Sanjeev Ranjan Mishra– Gyan Vinimay Ki Nai Takniki aur Mail Banate Dalit
Rinku Pegu-At home and the world: Negotiating citizenship in contemporary nowgong
Prashad Khanolkar-Duplicacy; The robinhood of Global City
Dhananjay-Bhikhari Thakur aur Kolkata
2005- 2006
Amit Ranjan Sharma – Memories and Narratives of Delhi
Amruta Sadanand -More Development of Marathi Experimental Theatre in Pune in the post 90s
Apurva -The cultural economy of New Urbanism: Pune’s Magarpatta City, A case study
Ateya Khorakiwala -Development/ Displacement: Understanding the tools of urbanisation
Deepa Palaniappan -Invisible in New Delhi: Spatial Narratives of the Disabled in city public spaces
Deepak Kumar -Popular Music and the Configuration of jat Identity in Haryana
Girija Duggal and Sudeep Duggal -Deconstructing Holy Matrimony: The Politics of the Matrimonial Classified in Delhi’s Leading Newspapers
Jhelum Biswas -Calcutta in Modern Indian English Literature
Manoj Kumar jha -Vikshipton par padti Nigahon ki dastan (A story of Gazing Madness and Mad People)
Mythri Prasad -Geographies of Capital and Labour in Trivandrum City, Kerala
Pawas Bisht and Sukanaya Sen -Situating Small- Town Desire: Space and Memory in Bunty aur Babli
Rajeev Ranjan Giri -Pustakalaya aur Shehar ke Baudhik Vikas ka Antarsambandh (Library and the Intellectual Life of a City)
Rajesh Narayan Dwivedi -Varanasi ke Bunakaron ki Samkalin Chunautiyan: Ek Sarvekshana (Contemporary Challenges of the Weavers of Varanasi : A Survey)
Ramya Swayamprakash -Textile dreams
Shirish Khare -Little Bele Troupe and Chhau Nritya Parampara (Little Bele Troupe and the Chhau Dance Tradition)
Sugata Nandi -A Criminal Riots: The Calcutta Riot of August 1946 and the Goondas
Surabhi Tiwari -The Corrupt Son of the Erupting City: Kolkata in Law and Lovely Matters like Relationship
Sutapa Majumdar -Beyond the Beauty Myth: Exploring Invention, Invisible Labour and Consumption in Beauty Services
Swati Das -Exploring the Impact of Audio-Video Recording of Women’s Songs In Bihar
Vaibhav Patel -Brahmin Gali, Ethnography of a Bylane
2006-2007
Sangeet Chandu Thosar -Political Leadership of Women in Pune City: A Dalit Feminist study (1995-2007)
Ipsita Sahu -Negotiating Boundaries: A comparative study of the Multiplex culture in the urban and the sub-urban space and the role of the multiplex in dissolving the urban and sub-urban boundary
Agniv Ghosh -Nabababus and Their New Calcutta
Rohit Prakash -Kalidas Rangalaya:Patna Ka Ek Sanskritik Kendra
Alice Samson -Story of the Second Hand Book Stalls of Hyderabad
Bhavya Dore and Kartik Nair -Appu Ghar: Amusement Anxieties and the city
Sreedeep Bhattacharya -Pornography in Urban India: From Porn Sphere to mainstream from footpath to websites
Meera Baindur, Sreeja K.G. and Sowjanya R. Peddi -The ‘Lake’ As Urban Public space
Sutapa Ghosh -Modernist Planning
Mayuri Samant -Caste Violence in Urban Spaces: A Study of Narratives
Naveen Ramamurthy Kanalu -Pirla Panduga: Weaver Migration and the Muharram practices in the Deccan
Priyanka Gupta -Graffiti and Kolkatascape, a discourse of conflicting rights, class and citizenship
Vineet Kumar -Niji Television Chennalon main Bhasha evam Sanskritik Nimittiyan
Akhil Katyal -Queer Urban Culture(s): The Case of New Delhi
Abhishek Kumar Gupta -Bahati Ganga Main Ek Jindagi
D. Karthikeyan -Music From The Margins: Gaana Songs As A Subaltern Phenomenon
Geetanjoy Sahu -Urban Environmental Governance
Hijam Eskoni Devi -Relevance of Traditional Institution in Urban Governance: A Case study of Nupi Keithel, Imphal
Renu P Cherian -The ‘space of charisma’ in a City
Sumalatha –B.S Space for brokering branches in Kerala townships: A casual link with urbanisation
Sebastian Rodrigues -Baina Demolitions: Texts and contexts