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Recently India-born author Nandini Das is the winner of 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

About the British Academy Book Prize:

• The British Academy Book Prize, formerly known as the Nayef Al Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, is a prestigious annual award given to the best non-fiction book that, in the opinion of the judges, contributes to global cultural understanding for a wider public audience.
• The prize was established in 2013 in partnership with Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan and is worth £25,000.
• The British Academy is the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences, and the prize is one of its most prestigious awards.
• It is a testament to the importance of these disciplines in helping us to understand ourselves and the world around us.
• Eligible books must be non-fiction, and come from the subjects that fall within the humanities and social sciences, from archaeology, history and psychology to philosophy, languages and cultural studies.
• Nandini Das who is a Professor in the English faculty at the University of Oxford, won the award for her book ‘Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire’