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19/06/23 22:07 PM IST

Ramachandra Guha’s book wins Elizabeth Longford Prize

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  • Historian and writer Ramchandra Guha’s book Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom has won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2023.
About the book
  • Historian and writer Ramchandra Guha’s book Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom has won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2023.
  • Guha has been awarded £5,000 (₹5 lakhs approximately) and a bound copy of Elizabeth Longford’s memoir.
  • The jury was chaired by Roy Foster.
  • The judging committee also included Antonia Fraser and Flora Fraser (daughter and granddaughter of Longford respectively), Richard Davenport-Hines and Rana Mitter.
  • Rebels Against the Raj shows how historical biography can illuminate the temper of the times through immersion in individual lives.
  • The book has been published by Penguin Random House in India, William Collins in the U.K., and Alfred Knopf in the USA.
About Award
  • The award was founded in 2003 by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros to commemorate British historian Elizabeth Longford.
  • Every year it rewards exemplary works in historical biography.
  • The prize is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
  • Previous winners of the award include The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour, How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning by Charles Moore and Julian Jackson’s A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle.
Source- Indian Express

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