Dinyar Patel wins the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize

Dinyar Patel wins the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize

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Category : Awards Published on: December 03 2021

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  • The fourth Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021 was awarded to Dinyar Patel for Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, a biography of one of modern India's most important figures.
  • The foundation chose Patel's work from a shortlist of six nonfiction books about India that covered a wide range of themes and issues.
  • Dinyar Patel is an assistant history professor at Mumbai's SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.
  • The biography is based on the life of Naoroji, a nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress.
  • He was the first Indian-born British Member of Parliament and a role model for Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Naoroji was dubbed the "Father of the Nation" by Gandhi, a title that is now reserved for Gandhi himself.
  • The New India Foundation honors the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for the best non-fiction book on modern/contemporary India every year since 2018.

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