Organized Section Awards (Section 55)
Rajni Kothari Award for Best Article on the Politics of South Asia
This award is for the best article on the politics of South Asia published in the previous calendar year.
| 2025 | Nioufer Siddiqui, SUNY Albany Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III Sumitra Badrinathan, American University “Misinformation and support for vigilantism: An experiment in India and Pakistan.” American Political Science Review 119(2): 947-965. 2025. |
Francine Frankel Award for Best Book on South Asian Politics
This award is for the best book on the politics of South Asia published in the previous two years.
| 2025 | Adam Auerbach, Yale University Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvanice Migrants and Machines: How Political Networks Form in Urbanizing India. Princeton University Press, 2024. |
| 2025 | Sandipto Dasgupta, The New School Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony. Cambridge University Press, 2024. |