UoH scholar Anjana M Nair wins Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship 2026–27

University of Hyderabad PhD scholar Anjana M Nair has been awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship 2026–27. She will pursue research on ancient Indian legal and literary traditions at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hyderabad: Anjana M Nair, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, School of Social Sciences at University of Hyderabad, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship (2026–2027).

Anjana is currently pursuing her doctoral research under the supervision of Prof Suchandra Ghosh, Head of the Department of History at the University of Hyderabad. Her research focuses on crime and deviance in historical trajectory, which she studies through its regulation in normative Sanskrit theological traditions, and parallel contestations in narrative literary traditions from 2nd century BCE to 8th century CE.

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As part of the FNDR fellowship, Anjana will be utilising a database of rare manuscript variants in US repositories identified as per relevance. She will be conducting her research in the Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of Prof Donald R Davis.