2025 Winners
Satya Shikha Chakraborty, Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India. Cambridge University Press. 2026. (The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Dana Kornberg, The Garbage Economy: Caste Capitalism and the Persistence of Informal Recycling in Delhi. (Forthcoming) Oxford University Press. 2026. (The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2024 Winners
Darshana Mini, Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India. University of California Press. 2024. (Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Vibhuti Ramachandran, “Immoral Traffic”: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India. Cambridge University Press. 2025. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2023 Winners
Tyler W. Williams, If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi. Columbia University Press. 2024. (Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Andrew McDowell, Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India . Stanford University Press. 2024. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2022 Winners
Anna Seastrand, Body, History, and Myth: South Indian Murals, 1550-1800. Princeton University Press. 2024. (Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Divya Cherian, Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia. University of California Press. 2022. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2021 Winners
Holly Shaffer, Grafted Arts: The Marathas and the British in Western India, 1760-1820. Yale University Press. 2022. (Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Vaibhav Saria, Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India. Fordham University Press, 2021. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2020 Winners
Steven Vose, Reimagining Jainism in Islamic India: Jain Intellectual Culture in the Delhi Sultanate. Forthcoming (Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Nikhil Menon, Planning Democracy: India’s Cold War Experiment Cambridge University Press. 2022. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2019 Winners
Dipti Khera, The Place of Many Moods: Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century. Princeton University Press. 2020. (Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Bharat Venkat, At the Limits of Cure. Duke University Press. 2021. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2018 Winners
Eric Huntington, Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism. University of Washington Press. 2019. (Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India. Cambridge University Press. 2018. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2017 Winners
Radhika Govindrajan, Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relations in India’s Central Himalayas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2018. (Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Diane Coffey and Dean Spears, Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste. Harper Collins India. 2017. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2016 Winner
Anand Taneja, Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi. Stanford University Press. 2017. (The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2015 Winners
Walter Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. Columbia University Press. 2016. (Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Bhrigupati Singh, Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2015. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2014 Winners
Jessica Marie Falcone, Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built. Cornell University Press. 2014. (Edward C. Dimock Prize in the Indian Humanities)
Lisa Bjorkman, Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai. Duke University Press. 2015. (Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences)
2013 Winner
Sunila Kale, Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development. Stanford University Press. 2014.
2011 Winner
Karin Zitzewitz The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India. Oxford University Press. 2014.
2010 Winners
Melissa Kerin, Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2015.
Cathleen Cummings, Decoding a Hindu Temple: Royalty and Religion in the Iconographic Program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal. Pasadena: South Asian Studies Association. 2014.
2008 Winner
Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Reconsidering Untouchability Chamars and Dalit History in North India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2011.
2007 Winners
Karline McLain, India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings and Other Heroes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2009.
Michael Youngblood, Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization. Pasadena: South Asian Studies Association. 2016.
2006 Winners
Mytheli Sreenivas, Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2008.
Lisa Mitchell, Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue. Indiana University Press. March 2009.
2005 Winner
Richard Kent Wolf, The Black Cow’s Footprint: Time, Space and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2006.
2004 Winners
Deborah Hutton, Art of the Court of Bijapur. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006.
Sondra Hausner, Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007.
2003 Winners
Pika Ghosh, Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. March 2005.
Aseema Sinha, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. March 2005.