The New India Foundation is pleased to announce the Girish Karnad Memorial Lecture 2021.

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THE NEW INDIA FOUNDATION

Enabling ground breaking research on Independent India through Fellowships and recognising excellence in writing on modern and contemporary india through the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize.

Applications for the 10th round of New India Foundation Fellowship are now closed - many thanks to everyone who applied. Stay connected for updates on the announcement of Fellows.

We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the third Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize: Amit Ahuja for his book 'Mobilizing the Marginalized' and Jairam Ramesh for his book 'A Chequered Brilliance'. Read More.

Girish Karnad Memorial Lecture for 2021
Topic: US Politics: Why Here, and Where from Here?
Speaker: Edward Luce
Date: 12th March 2021
Time: 6:30 pm IST
Register here: https://bit.ly/3u3CSE4

Joint winners of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020

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Lectures

The Foundation has endowed an annual New India Lecture, delivered by a distinguished scholar or writer. Held every year in a different city, the lecture is held in partnership with a reputed public institution in that city.

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Fellowships

The core activity of the New India Foundation is the New India Fellowships, awarded to scholars and writers working on different aspects of the history of independent India. From a large pool of several hundred applications, about 15-20 are shortlisted to meet with the jury and about 5-10 fellowships are awarded.

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Book Prize

The New India Foundation announces an annual Book Prize titled “Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize” for the best non-fiction book on post independence india. There is no limitation as to genre—the book can be a work of history, biography, political commentary, travel, memoir, etc.

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