John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History
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2018 Afghanistan rising : Islamic law and statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires by Faiz Ahmed
2017 Culture of encounters : Sanskrit at the Mughal court by Audrey Truschke
2016 Ashoka in ancient India by Nayanjot Lahiri
2015 Power, memory, architecture : contested sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300–1600 by Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner
2014 Crossing the Bay of Bengal : the furies of nature and the fortunes of migrants by Sunil S. Amrith
2013 The millennial sovereign : sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam by A. Azfar Moin
2012 Small town capitalism in western India by Douglas E. Haynes
2011 The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab by Farina Mir