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Chatterji wins for Shadows at Noon, her genre-defying history of South Asia during the 20th century.

Six academics from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

India is home to one of the most vibrant, engaged and mystifying democracies on the planet. Cambridge academics, across a wide range of disciplines, are working on the ground – with citizens, charities, NGOs, fellow scholars and politicians – to try to untangle it.

̽»¨Ö±²¥history of science has been centred for too long on the West, say Simon Schaffer and Sujit Sivasundaram. It’s time to think global.

Cambridge’s engagement with India has evolved from scholars working on India to scholars working with, and increasingly, in India – on shared priorities, to mutual advantage. Joya Chatterji, Toby Wilkinson and Bhaskar Vira explain why this is, as we begin a month-long focus on some of our India-related research.