Akhil Gupta, director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia and professor of anthropology, has been awarded the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize for 2014 for his book, "Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Poverty in India" (Duke, 2012).
Awarded by the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the Coomaraswamy Prize honors distinguished scholarship in South Asian studies that "either promises to define or redefine" our understanding of an entire subject area, according to organizers. It is the most important award for a book about South Asia in the social sciences and humanities bestowed by the AAS, the leading U.S. professional organization for the study of Asia.
The prize, which includes a cash award and an AAS citation, will be presented at the association’s annual conference in Philadelphia on March 28.
For more information, visit the UCLA International Institute.
Awarded by the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the Coomaraswamy Prize honors distinguished scholarship in South Asian studies that "either promises to define or redefine" our understanding of an entire subject area, according to organizers. It is the most important award for a book about South Asia in the social sciences and humanities bestowed by the AAS, the leading U.S. professional organization for the study of Asia.
The prize, which includes a cash award and an AAS citation, will be presented at the association’s annual conference in Philadelphia on March 28.
For more information, visit the UCLA International Institute.
