The New India Foundation is delighted to announce the LONGLIST for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022.

The 2022 Longlist (in alphabetical order) is:

• 'Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite' by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen (Princeton University Press)

• 'The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak' by Partha Chatterjee (Permanent Black)

• 'Sayed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist' by Yashodhara Dalmia (HarperCollins Publishers)

• 'Governance by Stealth: The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Making of the Indian State' by Subrata Mitra (Oxford University Press)

• 'The Chipko Movement: A People’s History' by Shekhar Pathak (Permanent Black)

• 'Tata: The Global Corporation that Built Indian Capitalism' by Mircea Raianu (Harvard University Press)

• 'Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India' by Rukmini S. (Context, Westland)

• 'Congress Radio: Usha Mehta and the Underground Radio Station of 1942' by Usha Thakkar (Penguin Random House)

• 'Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India' by Suchitra Vijayan (Context, Westland)

• 'Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India by Ghazala Wahab (Aleph)