Premchand Awardees

The Premchand Research Award in Hindi Studies provides support in the form of a grant of up to $2000 to an under-graduate or graduate student undertaking research on Hindi literature in India. For further details on the application procedure and deadlines, please click here.

Awardees

2024

Archit Nanda (Ph D Student,Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
The World' of Hindi Literature: Translation, Curation and Criticism

Akshita Todi (Ph.D. Student, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)
Women’s Bazaarscapes: Hidden Histories of Kolkata’s Barabazaar

Anjali Yadav (Ph D Student, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle
Women Whereabouts: Missing Women Voices from the Eighteenth-Century South Asia
2023 Akshita Todi (Ph.D. Student, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)
Hindi and Marwari Literature: Canons and Peripheries, Nation and Community
2022 Radhika Prasad (Ph.D. Student, Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
The Cosmopolitanism of Hindi Modernism: Hindi Modernity, Literary Experimentalism, and the Nation Form
2021 Not Awarded
2020 Swarnim Khare (Ph.D. Candidate, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Writing in Prison: The Political Prisoner and Public Spheres in India
2019 Anirudh Karnick (Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania)
Building A Modern Literature From The Ground Up: Theorisations of the Literary in 20th C. Hindi