 Other 11 members of the group included Jeram Patel (1930), Rajesh Mehra, Ambadas Khobragade ( 1923-2012)Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh (1937), Eric Bowen (1929-2002), Himmat Shah (1933), Nagji Patel, Redappa Naidu and Jyoti Bhatt (1934).He was awarded the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1968 for research on project "The significance of the traditional Numan to Contemporary Art".A major contribution by J. Swaminathan was that he helped vernacular painters from tribes like Gond and Bhil to gain international recognition.