2020 – Dr John Thomas, Assistant Professor of History at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati, Assam
2017 – Dr Arupjyoti Saikia, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam ‘Assam after WWII: a political biography of an Indian state
2015 – Dr Lipokmar Dzuvichu, Assistant Professor, North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University
‘Guns on the move’: the arms trade along the North East Frontier of British India
2013 – Dr Joy Pachuau, Centre of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Collecting, archiving and understanding the visual resources on the Mizos of Northeast India
2012 – Varunika Saraf, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Souvenirs, heritage and fakes: the making of ‘Indian miniatures’, from the nineteenth century to the present.
2011 – Dr Tej Pratap Singh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University
Structural violence and Maoist insurgency in India
2010 – Dr Sharachchandra Lélé, Senior Fellow, Centre for Environment & Development, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore
The promises and pitfalls in the ongoing convergence of carbon payment programmes, ecosystem service concepts and forest governance issues in India.
2009 – Dr Sanjay Kumar Pandey, Associate Professor, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
A comparative analysis of the Naga and Mizo movements in India
2008 – Dr Sajal Nag, Department of History, Assam University
Slavery and anti-slavery movements in the Lushai Hills
2007 – Dr Amrit Srinivasan, IIT, Delhi
The secular feminine: some evidence from Hinduism and its others
2006 – Dr A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development Studies
Nation, community, language: writing history in colonial Tamilnadu
2005 – Dr Rosinka Chaudhuri, Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences, Calcutta
Becoming declassed: the language of middle-class Marxism in Bengal
2004 – Dr Meena Menon, trade unionist
Indian textile industry in the globalised world economy