After a tough first round during which more than twenty books were considered, the BASAS Book Prize 2024 panel has announced the following as the shortlisted books for the BASAS Book Prize 2024:

• Holly Shaffer, Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910
• Sushmita Pati, Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi
• Olly Akkerman, A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books. Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia
• Nikhil Menon, Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development
• Salma Siddique, Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960)

Congratulations to the authors! These books will be read by the prize panel and a decision on the winner will be announced at the BASAS Annual Lecture 2024.