"Manu Joseph's controversial tale of caste wins Indian literary prize", The Guardian, 2 November 2010.
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, Tony Joseph.The Queen of Jasmine Country, Sharanya Mannivanan.The Assassination of Indira Gandhi, Upamanyu Chatterjee.The Most Dangerous Place:A History of the United States in South Asia, Srinath Raghavan.Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature, Jairam Ramesh.Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra.The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community, Sudeep Chakravarti.Interrogating my Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit, Manoranjan Byapari, translated by Sipra Mukherjee.Requiem in Raga Janki, Neelum Saran Gour.The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha).Poonachi, Perumal Murugan (translated from Tamil by N.All the Lives We Never Lived, Anuradha Roy.Half the Night is Gone, Amitabha Bagchi.Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy.The Island of Lost Girls, Manjula Padmanabhan.The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.Jinnah Often Came To Our House, Kiran Doshi.
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The Patna Manual of Style, Siddharth Chowdhury.The Book of Common Signs, Ashok Srinivasan.The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.The Competent Authority, Shovon Chowdhury.Another Man's Wife and Other Stories, Manjul Bajaj.The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Manu Joseph.The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya.Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N.The Fakir, translated work of Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated by Monabi Mitra.Ananthamurthy, translated by Sushila Punitha The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya.If I Could Tell You, Soumya Bhattacharya.
Come, Before Evening Falls, Manjul Bajaj.Starting in 2018 a non-fiction category was included. The first year, 2010, the award was called The Hindu Best Fiction Award. It recognizes Indian works in English and English translation. The Hindu Literary Prize or The Hindu Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by The Hindu Literary Review which is part of the newspaper The Hindu. India, Empire, and First World War Culture, Santanu Das (for non-fiction).Tell Her Everything, Mirza Waheed (for fiction).