• Won the prize for work on inter-cultural encounters between Asians, Europeans 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.

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.

The Dan David Prize is awarded under three categories namely:

• Past category is generally drawn from the fields of history, archaeology, palaeontology and biography.
• Present from arts, media, policy and economics.
• Future from one of the exact or natural sciences.