MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship 2025

South Asian textiles form a crucial part of local as well as global histories. The MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowships will support South Asia-based projects that generate new interest in the region’s textile practices among diverse audiences. The Fellowships combine Nalli Silks’ focus area of textile production and design, with the MAP Academy’s vision of fostering incisive research in the study of art histories from South Asia.

Areas of Focus

The Fellowship programme supports research into under-explored textile-related histories, practices, and traditions across South Asia. Applicants may propose projects on any textile-centric subject. The following areas of research are encouraged:

• Histories of clothing and costume
• Community or personal textile archives
• Textiles in religious or liturgical contexts
• Environmental impact of textile production and consumption  
• Endangered or disappearing textile traditions
• Critical perspectives on revivalism
• Labour in textile production, with a focus on caste, class, and gender 
• Textiles in relation to other cultural forms—storytelling, poetry, music, architecture, and material culture
• Textiles in the context of archaeological study
• Textiles as symbols or metaphors in literature or mythology
• Techniques and tools used in specific textile traditions

• Table of Content
• About MAP Academy
• MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship
• Requirements for MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship

Aim and Benefits of MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship

A total of four Fellowships will be awarded, each carrying a one-time grant of INR 5,50,000.

Requirements for MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship Qualification

The Fellowship is open to early- and mid-career professionals. We invite applications from researchers as well as designers, archivists, journalists, writers, educators, practitioners, and also collectives and non-profit organisations.

Interview date, Process and Venue for MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship

The Fellowship supports a range of formats for research outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Journalistic inquiry
• Documentary film
• Archive activation
• Practice-based research
• Archive generation
• Digitisation and documentation initiatives

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Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit  MAP Academy & Nalli Fellowship webpage