BASAS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the BASAS Book Prize 2025. From a very strong field, the following books have been shortlisted by our Prize Panel:

• Moyukh Chatterjee, Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities (Duke UP)
• Amanda Lanzillo, Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India (University of California Press)
• Michael O’Sullivan, No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975 (Harvard UP)
• Eve Tignol, Grief and the shaping of Muslim communities in North India c. 1857–1940s (Cambridge UP)
• Callie Wilkinson, Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the making of Indirect Rule (Cambridge UP)

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 2025.