Book Publications

Five books have thus far emanated from the New India Foundation Fellowships. These are Harish Damodaran’s India’s New Capitalists (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), which is a study of the rise of new business communities; Vasanthi Srinivasan’s Gandhi’s Conscience-Keeper (Permanent Black, 2009), a study of the political philosophy of C. Rajagopalachari; Dinesh C. Sharma’s The Long Revolution (HarperCollins India), a history of India’s computer and IT industry; Deepak K. Singh's Stateless in South Asia (Sage Publications, 2009), which is about refugee politics in north-east India; and Ghazala Shahabuddin, Conservation at the Crossroads (Permanent Black, 2009), an analysis of the science and politics of biodiversity conservation. All these books have generated widespread and favourable reviews. Harish Damodaran's India's New Capitalists won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka award for the best work in non-fiction for 2008-9.