The judging panel made the following comments:

Prerna Singh’s essay, ‘Bleeding Bodies, Shifting Knowledge: Menstrual Knowledge, Materiality, and Everyday Negotiations in an Urban Slum’, broaches a complex and often taboo subject through extensive ethnographic fieldwork to create a beautifully-written and original analysis of the materialities and knowledges relating to menstrual culture.

Ila Manish’s essay, ‘Visualising the Colonial Information Network: Caste, Colonisation, and Knowledge in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Cochin and Travancore’, uses digital humanities methods to critically explore the footnote –  as artefact, aesthetic and analytical device – to interrogate the intersection of caste and racial hierarchies with anthropological knowledge.

Congratulations to Prerna and Ila!