Announcement: Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize 2014
We are delighted to announce that the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize 2014 has been awarded to Dr Nilanjana Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi for her essay " Drawing Roads, Building Empire: Space and Circulation in Charles D'Oyly's Indian Landscape", published in the journal, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies(Routledge, 2014). Our warmest congratulations to Nilanjana for the MM Prize, which is awarded to the Best Paper published in the year preceding the conference, i.e. (2013-2014) by a member of IACLALS.
This years's Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize was judged by a panel of 3 distinguished judges: Professor Suman Gupta (Open University, U.K.), Professor Avadesh K Singh (Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi) and Professor GJV Prasad (Jawaharlal University, Delhi, and Chair, IACLALS).
There were 10 entries for the Prize, and Professor Anjali Gera Roy's paper was adjudged a close second, and Rohini M Punekar's a close third, for which we would like to congratulate them as well.
We are beholden to the judges for sparing their valuable time and expertise to read and evaluate the essays, and the 10 IACLALS members who honoured Meenakshi Mukherjee by submitting their excellent scholarship for the Prize. The Meenakshi Mukherjee Prize will be formally awarded to Dr Nilanjana Mukherjee at the IACLALS Annual Conference 2015 to be held at BITS Pilani – Goa, from February 12-14, 2015.
M Asaduddin
Moderator & Vice Chair, IACLALS
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi - 110025
Director, Jamia Centenary History Project
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