Watumull Prize
Biennial literary award
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The Watumull Prize (1945–82) was established in 1944 to recognize "the best book on the history of India originally published in the United States".[1]
Recipients
| Year | Laureate | Book | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, eds., | The Cambridge Economic History of India, Volume 1: c. 1200–c. 1750 | Cambridge University Press |
| 1980 | Joseph E. Schwartzberg | A Historical Atlas of South Asia | University of Chicago Press |
| 1978 | John R. McLane | Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress | Princeton University Press |
| 1976 | Michael Pearson | Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response of the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century | University of California Press |
| 1974 | Leonard A. Gordon | Bengal: The Nationalist Movement, 1876–1940 | Columbia University Press |
| 1972 | Elizabeth Whitcombe | Agrarian Conditions in Northern India, vol. 1: The United Provinces Under British Rule, 1860–1900 | University of California Press |
| 1970 | Stephen N. Hay | Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India | Harvard University Press |
| David Kopf | British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization, 1773–1835 | University of California Press | |
| Eugene F. Irschick | Politics and Social Conflict in South India: The Non-Brahman Movement and Tamil Separatism, 1916–1929 | University of California Press | |
| 1968 | John Broomfield | Elite Conflict in a Plural Society: Twentieth Century Bengal | University of California Press |
| Myron Weiner | Party Building in a New Nation | University of Chicago Press | |
| 1966 | B. R. Nayar | Minority Politics in the Punjab | Princeton University Press |
| Thomas R. Metcalf | The Aftermath of Revolt: India, 1857–1970 | Princeton University Press | |
| 1964 | Charles A. Drekmeier | Kingship and Community in Early India | Stanford University Press |
| Charles H. Heimsmith | Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform | Princeton University Press | |
| 1962 | George D. Bearce | British Attitudes Toward India, 1784–1858 | Oxford University Press |
| Stanley A. Wolpert | Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India | University of California Press | |
| 1960 | Michael Brecher | Nehru: A Political Biography | Oxford University Press |
| 1958 | William de Bary, ed., | Sources of the Indian Tradition | Columbia University Press |
| 1954 | D. Mackenzie Brown | The White Umbrella: Indian Political Thought from Manu to Gandhi | University of California Press |
| W. Norman Brown | The United States and India and Pakistan | Harvard University Press | |
| 1951 | T. Walter Wallbank | India in the New Era | Scott Foresman |
| Louis Fischer | The Life of Mahatma Gandhi | Harper | |
| Gertrude Emerson Sen | The Pageant of Indian History, vol. I | Longman | |
| 1945 | Ernest J. H. Mackay | Chanhu-Daro Excavations, 1935–36 | American Oriental Society |