NLS Faculty Dr. Sushmita Pati’s Book Wins the 2024 BASAS Book Prize
May 2, 2024
We congratulate NLSIU faculty member Dr. Sushmita Pati who was awarded the 2024 BASAS Book Prize for her book Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi!
The BASAS Book Prize panel for 2022 publications had an excellent field of books to evaluate. Ultimately the Book Prize panel were unanimous about the decision to award the prize jointly to two very worthy winners for their outstanding scholarship: Olly Akkerman for A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia (Paul Mellon Centre, 2022) and Sushmita Pati, Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi (Cambridge UP, 2022).
You can also watch Dr. Sushmita Pati’s interview and learn more about her book here. She is also the winner of the 2023 BISA IPEG book prize.
About The British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)
BASAS supports advanced research in the humanities and social sciences of South Asia. It is one of the world’s leading learned societies for the study of South Asia. BASAS was established in 1986 and is now the largest UK interdisciplinary academic association for the study of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, and the South Asian diaspora. In 2007, BASAS merged with the Society for South Asian Studies, which had been formed in 1979 when the Society for Afghan Studies (founded in 1972) expanded its remit.