{"id":126333,"date":"2022-12-03T13:05:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T07:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126333"},"modified":"2022-12-03T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T07:40:53","slug":"a-book-on-chipko-movement-by-shekhar-pathak-bags-kamaladevi-chattopadhyay-nif-prize-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-book-on-chipko-movement-by-shekhar-pathak-bags-kamaladevi-chattopadhyay-nif-prize-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"A book on Chipko Movement by Shekhar Pathak bags Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Prize 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A book on Chipko Movement by Shekhar Pathak bags Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Prize 2022: <\/strong>Shekhar Pathak&#8217;s book on the popular forest conservation campaign Chipko Movement was chosen the winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022. Translated from Hindi by Manisha Chaudhry,\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe Chipko Movement: A People\u2019s History\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was selected from a diverse shortlist of five books covering a wide expanse of modern Indian history and encompassing distinct topics and perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-december-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A six-member jury panel chaired by political scientist Niraja Gopal Jayal chose the winner.&nbsp;The other jury members were entrepreneur&nbsp;<strong>Manish Sabharwal;<\/strong>&nbsp;historians&nbsp;<strong>Srinath Raghavan<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Nayanjot Lahiri;<\/strong>&nbsp;former diplomat&nbsp;<strong>Navtej Sarna;<\/strong>&nbsp;and attorney&nbsp;<strong>Rahul Matthan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other shortlisted books were \u201cAccidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India\u2019s Professional Elite\u201d by Swethaa S Ballakrishnen; \u201cWhole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India\u201d by Rukmini S; \u201cMidnight\u2019s Borders: A People\u2019s History of Modern India\u201d by Suchitra Vijayan; and \u201cBorn a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India\u201d by Ghazala Wahab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize recognizes and honours excellence in nonfiction writing on modern or contemporary India by authors of all nationalities. It carries a cash award of&nbsp;Rs 15 lakh,&nbsp;a trophy and a citation. Established in 2018,&nbsp;the Kamaladevi NIF Book Prize builds on the New India Foundation\u2019s mission of sponsoring high-quality research and writing on all aspects of Independent India. The Book Prize celebrates high-quality, non-fiction literature by emerging writers from all nationalities, published in the previous calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award is named after Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, an institution-builder who made substantial contributions to the independence struggle, the women&#8217;s movement, refugee rehabilitation, and the revival of handicrafts. Previous winners of the prize are&nbsp;Milan Vaishnav (2018), Ornit Shani (2019), Amit Ahuja and Jairam Ramesh (jointly, 2020), and Dinyar Patel (2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book on Chipko Movement by Shekhar Pathak bags Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Prize 2022: Shekhar Pathak&#8217;s book on the popular forest conservation campaign Chipko Movement was chosen the winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022. Translated from Hindi by Manisha Chaudhry,\u00a0\u201cThe Chipko Movement: A People\u2019s History\u201d\u00a0was selected from a diverse shortlist of five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":126334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4992],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-126333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2022","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126335,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126333\/revisions\/126335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}