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Yale's Priyasha Mukhopadhyay wins South Asian Studies prize
Mukhopadhyay’s book examines how forms of writing have shaped colonial subjects' understanding of their place in the British empire.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Thu, 11, Dec 2025
- 02:55 EST
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Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor at Yale University. / Yale
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, an Indian American Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, has been awarded the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies for her book ‘Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire’ (Princeton University Press, 2024).
The book examines how ordinary forms of writing, including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines, have shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in the British empire.
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