INDIAN HISTORIAN WINS $1M-WORTH AWARD IN ISRAEL

JERUSALEM: Noted Indian historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam has won Israel’s prestigious Dan David Prize for this year for his work on intercultural encounters between Asians, Europeans and people of North and South America during the early modern era. Subrahmanyam won the award in the category of ‘past time dimension’ for his work in macro history. He shares the $1 million award in this category with Prof Kenneth Pomeranz of University of Chicago. The international Dan David Prize is awarded annually to those who have made outstanding scientific, technological and humanistic accomplishments in fields representing the past, present and future of human achievement. Subrahmanyam, an alumni of University of Delhi, holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles