Applications Invited for NIF Translation Fellowships

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About the Organization

The New India Foundation, based in Bengaluru, uniquely matches public-spirited philanthropy with ground-breaking and relevant scholarship. In the seven-and-a-half decades since Independence, there has been a large body of work produced by Indian historians and social scientists.

Taken singly, many of these studies are very impressive; viewed cumulatively, they add up to much less than what one might expect. The chief reason for this is the determining influence on the scholarly practice of one single date: 15th August 1947.

About the Fellowship

Round 3 of the New India Foundation’s Translation Fellowships, aimed at bringing knowledge texts from Indian languages to English, will open for applications on August 1st, 2025 . In pursuit of fulfilling the NIF’s objective to foster scholarship around Independent India and to provide a wider audience for Indian-language texts, these Fellowships will be awarded from across 10 languages for the translation of non-fiction texts published from 1850 onwards.

Languages | Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil and Urdu.

Grant | INR 6 lakhs for each fellow

How to Apply

December 31st, 2025 | Deadline for submissions

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