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Round 12 of the NIF Book Fellowships
Celebrating Multilingual Excellence
NIF Translation Fellowship Winners 2024-25 Announced
Round 2 Fellows | NIF Translation Fellowship
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Achyut Chetan
Sanskriti Ke Chaar Adhyaya (HINDI: Dinkar)
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Hemang Ashwinkumar
The Dawn of Life (GUJARATI: Prabhudas Gandhi)
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Matthew Reeck
A Portrait of the West (URDU: Qazi Abdul Ghaffar)
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Vilasini Ramani
Swaraj to Whom? (TAMIL: Singaravelar)
Akshaya Mukul for
Writer Rebel Soldier Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya
Winner | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2023
Books in Focus
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The Many Lives of Syeda X : The Story of an Unknown Indian
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The Day I Became a Runner :
A Women's History of India through the Lens of SportSohini Chattopadhyay
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The Quest for Modern Assam:
A History 1942-2000Arupjyoti Saikia
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Vajpayee:
The Ascent of the Hindu RightAbhishek Choudhary
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Caste Pride:
Battles for Equality in Hindu IndiaManoj Mitta
The New India Foundation
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New India Foundation
Enabling research on Independent India through Book & Translation Fellowships and recognising excellence in writing on modern Indian history through the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize.
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Fellows in Focus
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Abhishek Choudhary
VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
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Manoj Mitta
Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India
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Nazia Akhtar
Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose
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Swati Ganguly
Tagore’s University: A History of Visva-Bharati 1921–1961
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Rahul Ramagundam
The Life and Times of George Fernandes
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Pradeep Magazine
Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey Through Modern India
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Rajshree Chandra
Competing Nationalisms: The Sacred & Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal
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G. Kanato Chophy
Christianity and Politics in Tribal India:
Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism
Book Fellowships
The core activity of the New India Foundation is the NIF Book Fellowships, awarded to scholars and writers working on different aspects of the history of independent India. Over the past ten rounds, Fellows have produced a wide range of highly-researched and critically-acclaimed writing.
Translation Fellowships
In pursuit of the New India Foundation’s objective to foster scholarship around Independent India, the NIF will award Translation Fellowships to 3 individuals for research and translation of non-fiction texts from various Indian languages to English.
Fellows Speak
NIF Fellows | Round 11
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Pramit Bhattacharya
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Srijan Deshpande
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Syed Jaleel Hussain
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Rachna Mehra
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Maya Mirchandani
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Disha Mullick
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Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
List of Fellows | All Rounds
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize
Instituted in 2018, the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, for the best non-fiction book on modern/contemporary India, has further built on our mission of sponsoring high-quality research and writings on the world’s largest democracy. There is no limitation as to genre—the book can be a work of history, biography, political commentary, travel, memoir, etc.
Girish Karnad Memorial NIF Lecture
The Foundation has endowed an annual New India Foundation Lecture, delivered by a distinguished scholar or writer on an extraordinary range of themes around contemporary India. The NIF Annual Lecture was renamed in 2019 to the ‘Girish Karnad Memorial Lecture’ in honour of the late multi-lingual scholar and playwright.