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YEAR | BOOK | AUTHOR |
2019 | An era of Darkness (Non-Fiction) | Shashi Tharoor |
2018 | The Blind Lady’s Descendants (Novel) | Anees Salim |
2017 | The Black Hill (Novel) | Mamang Dai |
2016 | Em and the big Hoom (Novel) | Jerry Pinto |
2015 | Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer (Novel) | Cyrus Mistry |
2014 | Trying to Say Goodbye (Poetry) | Adil Jussawalla |
2013 | Laburnum For My Head (Short Stories) | Temsula Ao |
2012 | These Errors Are Correct (Poetry) | Jeet Thayil |
2011 | India After Gandhi (Narrative History) | Ramachandra Guha |
2010 | Book of Rachel (Novel) | Esther David |
2009 | The Mahabharata : An Inquiry in the Human Condition (Critical Analysis) | *Badrinath Chaturvedi |
2007 | Disorderly Women (Novel) | Malathi Rao |
2006 | The Sari Shop (Novel) | Rupa Bajwa |
2005 | The Algebra of Infinite Justice (Essays) | Arundhati Roy |
2004 | The Mammaries of The Walfare State (Novel) | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
2003 | The Perishable Empire : Essays On Indian Writing in English (Essays) | Meenakshi Mukherjee |
2002 | A New World (Novel) | Amit Chaudhuri |
2001 | Rajaji: A Life (Biography) | Rajmohan Gandhi |
2000 | Cuckold (Novel) | Kiran Nagarkar |
1999 | The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan (Poetry) | *A.K. Ramanujan |
1998 | Final Solutions and other Plays (Plays) | Mahesh Dattani |
1996 | Memories of Rain (Novel) | Sunetra Gupta |
1994 | Serendip (Poetry) | Dom Moraes |
1993 | After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism (Criticism) | G.N. Devy |
1992 | Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (Short stories) | Ruskin Bond |
1991 | The Trotter-Nama (Novel) | I. Allan Sealy |
1990 | That Long Silence (Novel) | Shashi Deshpande |
1989 | The Shadow Lines (Novel) | Amitav Ghosh |
1988 | The Golden Gate (Novel in verse) | Vikram Seth |
1987 | Trapfalls in the Sky (Poetry) | Shiv K. Kumar |
1986 | Rich Like Us (Novel) | Nayantara Sahgal |
1985 | Collected Poems (Poetry) | Kamala Das |
1984 | The Keeper of the Dead (Poetry) | Keki N. Daruwalla |
1983 | Latter-Day Psalms (Poetry) | Nissim Ezekiel |
1982 | The Last Labyrinth (Novel) | Arun Joshi |
1981 | Relationship (Poetry) | Jayant Mahapatra |
1980 | On the Mother, Vol. I and II (Biography) | K.R. Srinivasa lyengar |
1979 | Inside the Haveli (Novel) | *Rama Mehta |
1978 | Fire on the Mountain (Novel) | Anita Desai |
1977 | Azadi (Novel) | Chaman Nahal |
1976 | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1947) (Biography) | S. Gopal |
1975 | Scholar Extraordinary (Biography) | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
1971 | Morning Face (Novel) | Mulk Raj Anand |
1969 | An Artist in Life (Study of Tagore) | Niharranjan Ray |
1967 | Shadow from Ladakh (Novel) | Bhabani Bhattacharya |
1965 | The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin (Autobiography) | *Verrier Elwin |
1963 | The Serpent and the Rope (Novel) | Raja Rao |
1960 | The Guide (Novel) | R.K. Narayan |
(No Awards in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1995, 1997 and 2008)