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TWO AUTHORS OF INDIAN ORIGIN SHORTLISTED FOR 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE

LONDON, Sep.12, 2023 (TBINN)
Two authors of Indian heritage, United Kingdom-based Nandini Das and United States-based Kris Manjapra, are among six world-wide writers on the shortlist unveiled in London today for the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, a leading international non-fiction prize worth GBP 25,000.
India-born Nandini Das is in the running for ‘Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire’ and Caribbean-born Manjapra of mixed African and Indian parentage has been shortlisted for ‘Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation’.
The prize, now in its 11th year, is open to authors of any nationality based anywhere in the world and working in any language, provided the nominated work is available in English and published in U.K. It celebrates research-based works of non-fiction that have made an outstanding contribution to the public understanding of world cultures and the ways in which they interconnect.

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