NIF Book Fellowships

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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