Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Prize for Nonfiction about India 2024

I thought that this might be of interest to readers here. The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Prize is awarded annually for "the finest non-fiction on modern and contemporary Indian history published in the previous calendar year" by the New India Foundation. The 2024 shortlist and longlist are:

Shortlist:

How Prime Ministers Decide, Neerja Choudhry, Aleph Book Company
A Part Apart - The Life And Thought Of B R Ambedkar, Ashok Gopal, Navayana
Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir, Chitralekha Zutshi, Harper Collins India
Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras, Radhika Iyengar, Harper Collins India
H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars, Kunal Purohit, HarperCollins

Longlist (not including the titles that made the shortlist):
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India, Aditya Balasubramanian (Princeton University Press)
From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada, Sudha Bharadwaj (Juggernaut)
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century, Joya Chatterji (Penguin)
No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities 1800-1975, Michael O’Sullivan (Harvard University Press)
Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle Against the British Maritime Empire, AR Venkatachalapathy (Penguin)

Here's the award page https://www.newindiafoundation.org/press-release-longlist-nif-book-prize-2024
Here's a page from an online news site that has excerpts from the shortlisted books https://scroll.in/article/1074023/nif-announces-five-book-shortlist-for-the-2024...