Past AIIS Book Prize Winners
2007 Winners
Karline McLain, Bucknell University, India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings and Other Heroes
Michael Youngblood, Cultivating Communities: Identity, Ambiguity and the Construction of Common Interest in a Contemporary Indian Social Movement
2006 Winners
Lisa Mitchell, University of Notre Dame. The Making of a Mother Tongue: Language, Emotion, and Collective Identity in Colonial and Post-colonial Southern India
Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University. Conjugality and Capital: Family and Colonial Modernity in Tamil India, 1880-1950
2004 Winners
Deborah Hutton, College of New Jersey. Art of the Court of Bijapur.
Sondra Hausner, Research Advisor for Save the Children-US (Nepal) Wandering in Place: Body, Space, and Time for Hindu Renouncers
2003 Winners
Aseema Sinha, U of Wisconsin, Madison. The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan. March 2005.
Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina. Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. March 2005.
