Deadline: 31-Dec-22
The New India Foundation’s (NIF) Book Fellowship is offering awards to scholars and writers working on different aspects of the history of independent India.
From a large pool of several hundred applications, about 15-20 are shortlisted to meet with the Jury and about 5-10 fellowships are awarded.
The books that result from the New India Fellowship convey original research in an accessible manner to different constituencies. To that end, each book is published by a prestigious publishing house. The Trustees have wide experience of publishing with leading firms in India and abroad.
Benefits
- Each Fellowship carries a grant of INR 18,00,000 (eighteen lakhs), payable as a monthly stipend of INR 100,000 (one lakh) for a period of twelve months, and the balance of INR 600,000 (six lakhs) payable on the submission of the final manuscript.
Eligibility Criteria
- The New India Foundation’s Book Fellowships are open to Indian Citizens only.
- Fellowship holders are expected to write original books.
- Their proposals should be oriented towards final publication, and outline a road map towards that destination.
- The Foundation is ecumenical as regards genre, theme, and ideology: the only requirement is that the proposed works contribute to a fuller understanding of contemporary India.
- Their books could be oriented towards economics, or politics, or culture.
- They could be a highly specific — an account of a single decade or a single region — or wide-ranging, such as a countrywide overview.
For more information, visit https://www.newindiafoundation.org/nif-fellowships