Ramachandra Guha's book wins Elizabeth Longford Prize

Ramachandra Guha's book wins Elizabeth Longford Prize

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Category : Awards Published on: June 19 2023

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Historian and writer Ramchandra Guha’s book Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom has won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2023.
Guha has been awarded £5,000 (₹5 lakhs approximately) and a bound copy of Elizabeth Longford’s memoir, The Pebbled Shore.
Guha also received a bound copy of Longford’s autobiography, The Pebbled Shore (1986).
The annual prize “was established in 2003 in affectionate memory of Elizabeth Longford (1906-2002), an acclaimed historical biographer and family matriarch best known for Victoria RI (1964), her scholarly and readable life of Queen Victoria, for her magisterial Wellington: Years of the Sword (1969), and Wellington: Pillar of State (1972)”.
The award was founded in 2003 by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros to commemorate British historian Elizabeth Longford.

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