Humanities – History

The Infosys Prize for Humanities - History is awarded to Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam for his path-breaking contribution to history. He is an outstanding scholar of early-modern (1500-1800) South Asian history. He has been able to develop a new genre of “connected history,” involving persons, products, and social and political processes stretching from Malacca in the East to Portugal in the West.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is the Distinguished Professor of History, and Navin and PratimaDoshi Endowed Chair in Pre-Modern Indian History at the University of California, U.S.

Jury citation:Prof. Subrahmanyam is an outstanding scholar of early-modern (1500-1800) South Asian history. His ground-breaking work recaptures the real dynamism that marked an epoch, which had often been wrongly viewed by early historians as “stagnant.”

He brings to his research work, unparalleled command of archives in Europe, the Middle East, and India, along with vast reading of primary and secondary texts in nearly a dozen languages.

He has authored or co-authored over 26 books and scores of articles, which have been translated from Portuguese, French and Italian, to Chinese and Japanese. The impact of his works has been felt across disciplines