The SOAS University of London is providing an educational opportunity of up to a maximum of £5,353. The scholarship is for one year only.
This scholarship has been established with a donation by Saraswati Dalmia’s daughter Yashodhara Dalmia, an art historian and an independent curator based in New Delhi.
The School of Oriental Studies was founded in 1916 at 2 Finsbury Circus, London, the then premises of the London Institution. The school received its royal charter on 5 June 1916 and admitted its first students on 18 January 1917. The school was formally inaugurated a month later on 23 February 1917 by George V. Among those in attendance were Earl Curzon of Kedleston, formerly Viceroy of India, and other cabinet officials.
The School of Oriental Studies was founded by the British state as an instrument to strengthen Britain’s political, commercial and military presence in Asia and Africa. It would do so by providing instruction to colonial administrators (Colonial Service and Imperial Civil Service), commercial managers and military officers, but also to missionaries, doctors and teachers, in the language of that part of Asia or Africa to which each was being posted, together with an authoritative introduction to the customs, religion, laws and history of the people whom they were to govern or among whom they would be working.
The school’s founding mission was to advance British scholarship, science and commerce in Africa and Asia and to provide London University with a rival to the Oriental schools of Berlin, Petrograd and Paris. The school immediately became integral in training British administrators, colonial officials and spies for overseas postings across the British Empire. Africa was added to the school’s name in 1938.
Application Deadline: 23:59 (UK local time) 02 May 2022.
Eligible Countries: International
Type: MPhil or PhD
Value of Award: £5,353
Number of Awards: 1
Eligibility:
- Applicants are expected to have an outstanding academic record. Usually, a 2.1 or first in their undergraduate degree and must typically possess or expect to be awarded a Merit or Distinction in their Master’s Degree.
- Applicants should have a first or good second class honors bachelor’s degree from a UK university, or international equivalent, in a subject appropriate to that of the programme to be followed.
- Applicants must show that their English is of a high enough standard to successfully engage with and complete their course at SOAS University.
How to Apply: Applicants have to take admission to MPhil or PhD degree coursework at the university. After that, they should download the online application form and fill it out.
