Major Grant from the Department of Multiculturalism, Government of Canada to develop Urdu Instructional Materials (Primary Division), 1992-1999.
Smithsonian Institution Consultation Fellowship to go to India to work on the translation project of the Mughal emperor Shahjahan's history, Padshah Nama, 1990, 1992.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Research Fellowships to go to Pakistan for library research, 1985, 1987, 1989.
Research Fellowship by American Institute of Indian Studies, to go to India for library research in intellectual history, 1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grant, Washington, D.C., 1981-82. National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant, to go to Europe, 1985.