AAS SAC COOMARASWAMY BOOKPRIZE

The South Asia Council of the AAS has announced this year's competition for
the $1000 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, which will honour the
author of the best English-language work in South Asian studies. The
committee particularly seeks nominations of broad scholarly works with
innovative approaches that promise to define or redefine understanding of
whole subject areas. Nominations for the book prize may be made by authors,
publishers, or other interested members in the field. To be eligible,
nominated books must be original, scholarly, nonfiction works with a 1994
copyright date, and must be the first publication of this text in English
anywhere in the world. The book's subject matter must deal with South Asia
(India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) and may concern any topic
in any discipline, or it may cross disciplinary lines. Works are not
eligible if they are reference works, exhibition catalogs, textbooks, essay
collections, poetry, fiction, memoirs, or autobiographies. Translations
will be eligible only if they include a substantial introduction,
annotation, or critical apparatus. Sponsoring presses are allowed to
nominate up to six titles a year. Nominators must send a copy of each work
nominated to EACH of the three members of the review committee below. These
three copies must be received by the committee members no later than
JULY 1. The winner will be announced at the AAS annual meeting next spring.
AKC PRIZE COMMITTEE: Stuart Blackburn (Chair), Department of Languages &
Cultures of South Asia, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of
London, Thornhaugh St., Russell Square, London WC1H OXG, U.K.; John C.
Holt, Religion Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011: Sumathi
Ramaswamy, Department of History, 207 College Hall, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379.