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

Hemang Ashwinkumar (GUJARATI)
Prabhudas Gandhi’s Jivan Nu Parodh (The Dawn of Life)
Achyut Chetan (HINDI)
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar's Sanskriti Ke Chaar Adhyaya
Vilasini Ramani (TAMIL)
Singaravelar's Swarajyam Yaarukku? (Swaraj to Whom?)
Matthew Reeck (URDU)
Qazi Abdul Ghaffar's Naqsh-e-Farang (Portrait of the West)

Venkateswar Ramaswamy & Amlan Biswas (BANGLA)
Nirmal Kumar Bose's Diaries 1946-47
NS Gundur (KANNADA)
DR Nagaraj's Allamaprabhu Mattu Shaive Pratibhe
Rahul Sarwate (MARATHI)
Sharad Patil's Marxvaad: Phule-Ambedkarvaad