FOR ALL WITH AN INTEREST IN THE HISTORY
OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE BRITISH RAJ
BOOK PRIZE SHORTLIST
Proceeds from lectures fund annual prizes for non-fiction historical writing on British India: The British in India Book Prize and The British in India Military History Book Prize.
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Congratulations to the following authors and publishers whose books have been shortlisted for The British in India Book Prize 2025.
The British in India Book Prize
An annual prize of £1000 for an original work that makes a significant contribution to advancing knowledge or understanding of the British in South Asia and is the author’s first or second sole book publication.
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The British in India Book Prize 2025
The British in India Book Prize 2025 rewards excellence in writing about the history of the British in South Asia by first- or second-time authors of books published in 2024. The winning entry will be decided by a panel of three judges. Congratulations to the following authors and publishers whose books have been shortlisted.
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Shortlist
Lubaaba Al-Azami. Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World. John Murray Press.
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Hannah Fitzpatrick. Mapping Partition: Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan. John Wiley & Sons.
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Jeff Rosen. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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Natasha Sarkar. The Last Great Plague of Colonial India. Oxford University Press.
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Asheesh Siddique. The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Yale University Press.
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The British in India Military History Book Prize
The British in India Prize for Military History rewards excellence in writing about the military history of the British in South Asia up to 1947 by first- or second-time authors of books published in the preceding year. The winner receives £500. The winning entry is decided by a panel of three judges. The British in India Prize for Military History will not be awarded in 2025 due to insufficient entries.
Men of No. 8 Column, 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, 200 miles behind Japanese lines in Burma, raise a soundless cheer for the folks at home as their sick and wounded are evacuated by supply plane in April 1943 during the first Chindit expedition, Operation Longcloth. Photograph by William Vandivert, LIFE, public domain.