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
| 2025 |
Kartik Maini (PhD Candidate, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago)
The Nation and Its Ascetics: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati and the Making of the Gītāhṛday |
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| 2024 |
Archit Nanda (Ph D Student,Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London) Akshita Todi (Ph.D. Student, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) Anjali Yadav (Ph D Student, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle |
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| 2023 | Akshita Todi (Ph.D. Student, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) Hindi and Marwari Literature: Canons and Peripheries, Nation and Community |
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| 2022 | Radhika Prasad (Ph.D. Student, Literature, UC Santa Cruz) The Cosmopolitanism of Hindi Modernism: Hindi Modernity, Literary Experimentalism, and the Nation Form |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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