The longlist for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 has been announced | Books and Literature News,The Indian Express
The list features 10 non-fiction books, ranging from themes of art history to environmental and governmental shifts
Instituted by The New India Foundation in 2018, the award is meant to recognise excellence in non-fiction writing in India and carries a prize of Rs 15 lakh and a citation. The shortlist will be announced on November 8, and the winner on December 1.
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The books longlisted are: 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); Syed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist by Yashodhara Dalmia (HarperCollins); 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); Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India by Suchitra Vijayan (Context/Westland); and Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India by Ghazala Wahab (Aleph).
Making the announcement, the jury — comprising political scientist and author Niraja Gopal Jayal; entrepreneur Manish Sabharwal; historian and author Srinath Raghavan; historian and author Nayanjot Lahiri; former diplomat and author Navtej Sarna; and attorney and author Rahul Matthan — said, “The longlist is wonderfully diverse. The many themes in modern Indian history that it covers have great relevance today: if the histories of nationalism, business, the environment and state institutions offer a sobering historical lens on the present, the more contemporary works on feminism and data give reasons for optimism about the future.”
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