The profitable writer can be awarded a money prize of Rs 15 lakh. | Photo Credit: Special association
These works, revealed within the final 12 months, discover a variety of themes like biographies of pioneering leaders, cultural icons, political actions, social change, and communities which have formed India’s trajectory.
The books which have made it to the longlist embrace Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva by Janaki Bakhle, India’s Forgotten Country: A View from the Margins by Bela Bhatia, Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve by Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, India’s Near East: A New History by Avinash Paliwal, Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity by Manu Pillai, Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M. Visvesvaraya by Aparajith Ramnath, The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them by Amogh Dhar Sharma, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Art of Freedom by Nico Slate, Iconoclast: A Reflective Biographyof Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar by Anand Teltumbde, and The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community by Salil Tripathi.
The jury which chosen the longlist included chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group N. Chandrasekaran, entrepreneur Manish Sabharwal, political scientist Niraja Gopal Jayal, historian Srinath Raghavan, accomplice trilegal Rahul Matthan, Ambassador Jawed Ashraf and Yamini Aiyar. The profitable writer can be awarded a money prize of ₹15 lakh.
The shortlist can be introduced in October 2025 and the winner can be introduced on December 6, throughout Bangalore Literature Festival.
Instituted in 2018, the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize is India’s largest Book Prize for non-fiction, open to writers of all nationalities who’ve labored on any facet of Indian historical past after Independence. The work may be initially written in English or translated into English, and welcomes a variety of non-fiction genres.
Ashok Gopal gained final 12 months’s Book Prize for A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar (Navayana). Previous winners embrace Akshaya Mukul for Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya and Shekhar Pathak for The Chipko Movement: A People’s History, translated by Manisha Chaudhry.
Published – August 18, 2025 11:46 pm IST
