Jayita Sarkar Wins Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize

Former Visiting Scholar Jayita Sarkar, associate professor of global history of inequalities at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Political Sciences, is the recipient of the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. The prize is awarded to the most original and innovative first books on South Asia. Sarkar’s book, Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press), also has received an honorable mention for the Global Development Studies Book Award offered by the International Studies Association.