The Khashu Award provides for one grant of $5000 for research travel to South Asia. Priority will be given to mid-career graduate students conducting research toward a Master's thesis or dissertation proposal. Graduate students at UC Berkeley and other University of California campuses will be given priority.
Awardees
| 2024 | Astrid Hallaraaker (PhD Candidate, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center) Project: A Refuge for Purer Politics: Tagore's Influence on Gandhi's Political Stamina |
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| Pratiti Ketoki (PhD Student, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities) Project: The Travelling Poet: Tagore as a Global Figure |
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| 2022 | Anirudh Karnick (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature and South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania) Project: Like Tears Softening Pebbles: Tagore in the Making of Modern Hindi Poetry |
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| 2021 | Devin Choudhury (PhD Candidate, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley) Project: Writing on the Land: Narrative, Agriculture, and Ecology in Bengal (Grant Report) |
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| 2020 | Apala Das (PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Toronto; Junior Fellow, Massey College) Project: Modernist Askesis in the Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Grant Report) |
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