NIF Book Fellowships

 

Round 11 | 2022

  • PRAMIT BHATTACHARYA

    Accounting For The Nation:
    The Story Behind India’s Growth Numbers

  • SRIJAN DESHPANDE

    The Life and Music of Kumar Gandharva

  • SYED JALEEL HUSSAIN

    Ambivalent Allegiances:
    Shiism and Everyday Politics in Kashmir

  • RACHNA MEHRA

    Planning ‘New Towns’ in the Post-Independence Era:
    The Making of Faridabad City (1948-90)

  • MAYA MIRCHANDANI

    Fathers, Sons, and a Troubled Paradise:
    A Biography of the Abdullahs

  • DISHA MULLICK

    Love, Death and Compromise:
    Stories of a New Rural Public

  • RAMAKRISHNA RAMASWAMY

    A Difficult Mind:
    An Intellectual Biography of Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi

 

Round 10 | 2021

  • Anjum Hasan

    Shillong:

    North East India's First City

  • Maya Ratnam

    Dwelling in the Forest:

    The Government of Nature in Tribal Central India

  • Sohini C

    The Losers:

    Women Runners and Running in India

  • Raza Kazmi

    The First of Nine:

    A History of Palamau Tiger Reserve

  • Jayaseelan Raj

    Egalitarian Paradox:

    Dalits and the State in Kerala

  • Mohsin Alam Bhat

    Muslims and Popular Constitutionalism in India

  • Suryakant Waghmore

    Is a Post-Caste City Possible?

    Examining Erasure in Ahmedabad and Mumbai

  • Chitrangada Choudhary

    Power, Profit, Protest:

    Forest Communities on the Frontlines of Environmental Justice

  • Srikar Raghavan

    From Malnad to Mysore:

    Literature and Activism in Karnataka

  • Jaideep Hardikar

    The Rise and Fall of The Empress

  • Simin Patel

    Irani Restaurants of Bombay

Round 09 | 2019

  • Rajshree Chandra

    Competing Nationalisms:

    The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal

  • Pradeep Magazine

    Not Just Cricket:

    A Reporter’s Journey Through Modern India

  • Neeta Deshpande

    Cotton Country:

    The Story of India's Everyday Fabric

  • Upendra Sonpimple

    Songs of Dalit Assertion

  • Rahul Ramagundam

    The Life and Works of George Fernandes

  • Namita Wahi

    A History of the Fundamental Right to Property in India

  • Nirupam Hazra

    History of Caste in Post-Independence West Bengal

  • Ratheesh Radhakrishnan

    Sathyan:

    Stardom between Biography and History

  • Tariq Mir

    Life in Kashmir

 

Round 08 | 2017

  • Gautam Bhatia

    The Transformative Constitution:

    A Radical Biography in Nine Acts

  • Nazia Akhtar

    Representations of Hyderabadi Women

  • G. Kanato Chophy

    Christianity and Politics in Tribal India:

    Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism

  • Arupjyoti Saikia

    Assam:

    A History Since Partition

  • Manoj Mitta

    Untouchable India:

    The Emancipation of Dalits & A Bloody Pushback

  • Nachiket Kelkar

    Dark Reflections:

    Fieldnotes on People and Ecology from Bihar's Floodplains

  • Abhishek Choudhury

    Believer's Dilemma:

    Life of Atal Behari Vajpayee

  • Neha Dixit

    The Invisible Women of India's Economy

Round 07 | 2013

  • Jason Keith Fernandes

    Citizenship in a Caste Polity:

    Religion, Language and Belonging in Goa

  • Neyaz Farooquee

    Growing Up Muslim in India:

    An Ordinary Man's Guide to Radicalism

  • Nishita Jha

    Changing Narratives of Violence Against Women

  • Amitava Sanyal

    Social History of Football in Kolkata

  • Sohini Guha

    ‘Low Caste’ Politics in North India

  • S Sajikumar

    Sociology and Economics of Labour Migration into Kerala

 

Round 06 | 2011

  • Zarin Ahmad

    Delhi's Meatscapes:

    Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega-City

  • Akshaya Mukul

    Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India

  • Rahul Pandita

    Our Moon Has Blood Clots:

    The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits

  • Swati Ganguly

    Visva Bharati:

    Fate & Fortunes Post-Independence

  • Emmanuel Theophilus

    Modern Ecological History of Kali River

Round 05 | 2009

  • Saba Dewan

    Tawaifnama

  • Kartik Shanker

    From Soup to Superstar:

    The Story of Sea Turtle Conservation Along the Indian Coast

  • Richa Kumar

    Rethinking Revolutions:

    Soyabean, Choupals and the Changing Countryside of Central India'

  • Manjima Bhattacharya

    Mannequin:

    Working Women in India's Glamour Industry

  • Lawrence Liang

    Intersection of Law and Cinema

  • Ajai Shukla

    Sumdorong Chu Conflict

 

Round 04 | 2008

  • Amrita Shah

    Ahmedabad:

    A City in the World

  • Savithri Preetha Nair

    Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist

    EK Janaki Ammal: A Life in Science

  • Mani Shekhar Singh

    Social & Economic Context of Maithil Painting

Round 03 | 2007

  • Ayesha Kidwai

    In Freedom's Shade

    (Translated from Begum Anis Kidwai's memoir Azaadi ki Chhaon Mein)

  • Ghazala Shahabuddin

    Conservation at the Crossroads:

    Science, Society, and the Future of India's Wildlife

  • Bikramjeet Batra

    Debates on the Death Penalty in India

  • Varun Sahni

    India in The World: Strategic & Foreign Policy Since Independence

  • Ashok Chandran

    Biography of Bhaskara Panicker

 

Round 02 | 2005

  • Venu Govindu & Deepak Malghan

    The Web of Freedom:

    JC Kumarappa and Gandhi's Struggle for Economic Justice

  • Dinesh Sharma

    The Long Revolution:

    The Birth and Growth of India's IT Industry

  • Indira Chowdhury

    Growing the Tree of Science:

    Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  • SV Srinivas

    Politics as Performance:

    A Social History of the Telugu Cinema

  • Vasanthi Srinivasan

    Gandhi's Conscience Keeper:

    C Rajagopalachari & Indian Politics

Round 01 | 2004

  • Harish Damodaran

    India's New Capitalists:

    Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation

  • Shashank Kela

    A Rogue and Peasant Slave:

    Adivasi Resistance, 1800-2000

  • Deepak Singh

    Stateless in South Asia:

    Chakmas Between Bangladesh & India

  • Chitra Sinha

    Debating Patriarchy:

    Hindu Code Bill Controversy (1941-1956)

NIF Translation Fellowships

 

Round 01 | 2022

  • Venkateswar Ramaswamy (literary translator) & Amlan Biswas (statistician) to translate from Bangla: Nirmal Kumar Bose's Diaries 1946-47

  • NS Gundur (academician and literary historian) to translate from Kannada: DR Nagaraj's Allamaprabhu Mattu Shaiva Pratibhe

  • Rahul Sarwate (academician and historian) to translate from Marathi: Sharad Patil's Marxvaad: Phule-Ambedkarvaad