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With NEH awards, Romita Ray dips into history and visual culture of Indian tea industry

Posted on: March 3, 2017

Prof. Romita Ray has received two prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awards to support research for the book, tentatively titled “From Two Leaves and a Bud: Visualizing Tea in Colonial and Modern India.” A 2014 Summer Stipend Award allowed her to do research in the United Kingdom; a yearlong award in 2016 took her to India and Sri Lanka, and back to the UK.  READ MORE