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Six books have thus far emanated from the New India Foundation
Fellowships. These are Harish Damodaran’s India’s New
Capitalists (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), which is a study of
the rise of new business communities; Vasanthi Srinivasan’s
Gandhi’s Conscience-Keeper (Permanent Black, 2009), a study
of the political philosophy of C. Rajagopalachari; Dinesh C.
Sharma’s The Long Revolution (HarperCollins India), a
history of India’s computer and IT industry; Deepak K. Singh's
Stateless in South Asia (Sage Publications, 2009), which
is about refugee politics in north-east India; Ghazala
Shahabuddin, Conservation at the Crossroads (Permanent
Black, 2009), an analysis of the science and politics of
biodiversity conservation; and Anis Kidwai, In Freedom’s
Shade (Penguin India), the first English translation, by
Ayesha Kidwai, of a classic Partition memoir, published with a
substantial biographical sketch of the author by the
translation. All these books have generated widespread and
favourable reviews. Harish Damodaran's India's New
Capitalists won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka award for the
best work in non-fiction for 2008-9.
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