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India's Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam won the Dan David Prize
India's Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam won the Dan David Prize: Details, Achievements, Highlights
Indian Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam won Israel’s prestigious Dan David Prize in the category ‘Past time dimension’ for his work in macro-history.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam won the prize for his work on ‘Inter-cultural encounters between Asians, Europeans, and people of North and South America during the early modern era’.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam shared the USD 1 million award in the ‘Past time dimension’ category with Prof Kenneth Pomeranz of the University of Chicago.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a recipient of the Infosys Prize for humanities and holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at the University of California. He is the son on strategic analyst K Subrahmanyam and brother of former foreign secretary S Jaishankar.
About Dan David Prize
The Dan David Prize is a joint international award given by the Dan David Foundation headquartered at Tel Aviv University.
The Dan David Prize award was instituted by late Dan David, an international businessman, and philanthropist who envisioned a project that would extend beyond traditional academic categorisations.
The Dan David Prize annually awards three prizes of US$ 1 million each for achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world.
