Congratulations to Aditya Balasubramanian, whose book Towards a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press) has been longlisted for the New India Foundation (NIF) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2024. The longlist consists of ten of the finest non-fiction books on modern and contemporary Indian history published in the previous calendar year. The judging panel identified Towards a Free Economy among a body of scholarship on contemporary Indian history that is ‘prolific, exciting and constantly pushing boundaries’. Congratulations and best of luck, Aditya!