The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize is awarded annually for non-fiction books on modern or contemporary India which were published in the preceding year. The Prize was established in 2018 by the New India Foundation, a charitable trust that also awards research fellowships and book grants to Indian scholars and writers. Winners of the prize include politician and writer Jairam Ramesh, and historian Ornit Shani, and authors shortlisted for the prize include Aanchal Malhotra, Sujatha Gidla, Katherine Eban, Christophe Jaffrelot, Piers Vitebsky, Alpa Shah, and Manoranjan Byapari.
| Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize | |
|---|---|
| Sponsored by | New India Foundation |
| Country | India |
| Eligibility | Non-fiction books about contemporary and modern India |
| First awarded | 2018 |
Establishment
editThe Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize was established by the New India Foundation, a charitable organisation which also awards research fellowships and book grants for Indian writers.[1] Trustees of the foundation include political scientist Niraja Gopal Jayal, businessmen Manish Sabharwal and Nandan Nilekani, historians Ramachandra Guha, and Srinath Raghavan.[2] The foundation provides grants for scholars and writers who are writing non-fiction and fiction books about India, and also provides translation grants for works translated from Indian languages.[3] The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize was established in 2018, to recognise and foster non-fiction writing about India, and is awarded annually for books published in the preceding year.[4] The prize is awarded to authors of any nationality, for books published in any language, and comes with a financial award of ₹15 lakh (equivalent to ₹16 lakh or US$19,000 in 2023).[4][5] Books which have already been the subject of fellowships awarded by the foundation are ineligible, and the jury is composed of the foundation's trustees.[5]
Recipients
edit| Year | Winner | Shortlist | Source |
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| 2018 | Milan Vaishnav, When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press 2017) |
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| 2019 | Ornit Shani, How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise (Penguin Random House India) |
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| 2020 | Jointly awarded to:
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| 2021 | Dinyar Patel, Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism (Harvard University Press) |
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| 2022 |
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References
edit- ^ "New India Foundation". New India Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "New India Foundation Trustees". New India Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ Gupta, Kanishka (16 August 2020). "How the New India Foundation is dealing with the pandemic for its fellowships for non-fiction books". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ a b "New India Foundation Book Prize". New India Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ a b Scroll Staff. "The New India Foundation announces an annual non-fiction book prize worth Rs 15 lakh". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ Scroll Staff. "New India Foundation announces its shortlist for the first Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ Staff Reporter (2018-10-27). "Milan Vaishnav wins first Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "NIF Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2019 awarded to Ornit Shani's How India Became Democratic". Firstpost. 2019-11-11. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "New India Foundation has announced the shortlist for the third edition of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize". The Hindu. 2020-11-20. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize announces joint winners for 2020". Financialexpress. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "Dinyar Patel wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for 2021". Hindustan Times. 2021-12-01. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "New India Foundation: 2021 Shortlist". New India Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ Scroll Staff (8 November 2022). "Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for 2022 announces its shortlist of five nonfiction books". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-11-08.