BASAS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2025 BASAS Book Prize. From a very strong field, the following books have been shortlisted by our Prize Panel. The shortlisted books will now be carefully considered by the Panel. A decision on the winner of the Book Prize will be announced at the 2025 BASAS Annual Lecture (date and time to be confirmed).

The Shortlisted books:

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 (Univ 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)