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Hindol Sengupta is an award-winning author of nine books. He won the Wilbur Award in 2018 for Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World, the first book on Hinduism to win the prestigious prize given by The Religion Communicators Council of America. Earlier winners of the award include writers like Christopher Hitchens and Mitch Albom. He won the PSF Prize for public service in India in 2015. Past winners of the prize include the late Indian scientist and President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. His book Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy was short-listed in 2015 for the Hayek Prize given by the Manhattan Institute in memory of the Nobel laureate economist F. A. Hayek. His latest book is a best-selling biography of India's first deputy prime minister Vallabhbhai Patel. Sengupta is a World Economic Forum Young Global leader and a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. He has been a journalist at the Indian editions of Fortune magazine, Bloomberg TV, CNBC and CNN. He is Editor-at-Large for the Indian edition of the Fortune magazine, and currently a Chevening Scholar at the Department of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford.
[A] riveting, soul-searching narrative of India's search for self. Hindol Sengupta makes an exceptional contribution to countering colonial misconceptions of India through masterful analysis of 20th-century Indian thinkers, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, and more. . . Dispelling misconceptions about political Hinduism, Sengupta demonstrates that the cultural and social aspects of political Hinduism are not merely political in nature, but deeply entrenched within the history of India. A refreshing new work on modern India combining captivating narration with deep analysis--a must read for everyone.--Lavanya Vemsani, Distinguished University Professor, Shawnee State University
