| 2018 | Faiz Ahmed, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft
between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard University
Press, 2018) |
| 2017 | Audrey Truschke, Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal
Court (Columbia University Press, 2015) |
| 2016 | Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka in Ancient India (Harvard University
Press, 2015) |
| 2015 | Richard Eaton and Philip Wagoner, Power, Memory,
Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau,
1300-1600 (Oxford University Press, 2014) |
| 2014 | Sunil Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of
Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard Univ. Press, 2013) |
| 2013 | A. Azfar Moin, Millenial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and
Sainthood in Islam (Columbia University Press, 2012) |
| 2012 | Doug Haynes, Small Town Capitalism in Western India:
Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of an Informal
Economy, 1870 – 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular
Culture in British Colonial Punjab (University of California
Press, 2010) |