Twenty two litterateurs were awarded the Sahitya Akademi Puraskaars for 2011; these were presented in February of 2012. The chosen works spanned fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, and drama and were from the period of 2007 to 2009.
The award in English was in the category of 'narrative history' and went to an eminent sociologist-historian. Who and which well-regarded book on modern Indian history?
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Ramchandra Guha for
"India After Gandhi".
This day last year: Q.235