Coomaraswamy Book Prize

Prize for Best English Work in South Asian Studies

Coomaraswamy Book Prize

The South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies has announced this year's competition for the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, which will honour the author of the best English language work in South Asian Studies. The committee particularly seeks the nomination of broad scholarly works with innovative approaches that promise to define or redefine scholarly understanding of whole subject areas. Nominations for the prize may be made by authors, publishers, or other interested members in the field. Authors need not be AAS members.
To be eligible, nominated books must be original, scholarly, nonfiction works with a 1995 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 catalogues, 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 one copy of each nominated work to each of the three members of the review committee. These three copies must be received by the committee members no later than August 1, 1996. The winner will be announced at the AAS annual meeting the following spring.

A.K. Coomaraswamy Book prize Committee
John C. Holt, Chair
Religion Department
Bowdoin College
Brunswich, ME 04011
USA

Sumathi Ramaswamy
Dept. of History
207 College Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379
USA

Richard M. Eaton
Dept. of History
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA