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The award was made by a jury consisting of Ravi Dayal, Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Nandini Sundar. The jury praised Janaki Nair's book, published by Oxford University Press, as `a pioneering work of urban history, a meticulously researched and closely argued work that should inspire similar studies of other Indian cities.' The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh and a citation.
The Foundation also announced the award of five New India Fellowships for the writing of original books on different aspects of the history of independent India. The fellowships are for Rs. 50,000 a month, and shall run for a year.
The awardees are: Dinesh C. Sharma, who will write a history of India's information technology industry; Vasanthi Srinivasan, who will write a book on the political philosophy of C. Rajagopalachari; S.V. Srinivas, who will write a book on the public career of Telugu cinema; Indira Chowdhury, who will write an institutional history of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Venu Govindu and Deepak Malghan, who will write a biography of the Gandhian economist and nationalist J.C. Kumarappa.
This year, the New India Foundation received nearly 200 book proposals.
The successful candidates were chosen by a jury consisting of Andre Beteille, Ramachandra Guha, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Nandan Nilekani and N. Ravi.
