Indian historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam has won the prestigious Dan David Prize of Israel for the year 2019 for his work on inter-cultural encounters between Asians, Europeans
a. Sanjay Subrahmanyam
b. Rajeev Subrahmanyam
c. Sanjeev Subrahmanyam
d. Suresh Subrahmanyam
and people of North and South America during the early modern era.
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam shares the award in the category of 'Past Time Dimension' with Prof Kenneth Pomeranz of the University of Chicago.
About the Dan David Prize:
- The Dan David Prize is a joint international award given by the Dan David Foundation headquartered at Tel Aviv University.
- The award was instituted by late Dan David, an international businessman and philanthropist who envisioned a project that would extend beyond traditional academic categorisations.
Categories of Dan David Prize:
- Past category is generally drawn from the fields of history, archaeology, palaeontology and biography.
- Present category from arts, media, policy and economics.
- Future category from one of the exact or natural sciences.
Categories from which 2019 awardees were chosen:
- Macrohistory: Past category
- Defending Democracy: Present category
- Combating Climate Change: Future category
One must know:
- The award in the "Present" category for "Defending Democracy" has been won by 'Reporters without Borders' and Prof Michael Ignatieff.
- The prize in the "Future" category for "Combating Climate Change" has been won by Christina Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat.
- To encourage and foster new generations of scholars, the awardees are required to donate 10 per cent of their prize money towards scholarships for graduate or post-graduate researchers in their respective fields.
Question:
Q. Which Indian historian has won the prestigious Dan David Prize of Israel for the year 2019?a. Sanjay Subrahmanyam
b. Rajeev Subrahmanyam
c. Sanjeev Subrahmanyam
d. Suresh Subrahmanyam
