India-born author Nandini Das has been named the winner of the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
- She won the prize for her book ‘Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire’.
- As a Professor in the English faculty at the University of Oxford, the 49-year-old author has sought to present a new perspective on the origins of empire through the story of the arrival of the first English ambassador in India, Sir Thomas Roe, in the early 17th century.
British Academy Book Prize
- The British Academy Book Prize, formerly known as the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize, was established in 2013.
- The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is a leading international non-fiction prize worth GBP 25,000.
