D.D. Kosambi: One Life, Many Worlds. Ram Ramaswamy, published by HarperCollins. 2026

D.D. Kosambi was a mathematician, historian, Marxist, numismatist, and Sanskrit scholar who reshaped entire fields between 1929 and 1966. Sixty years after his death, he is more often invoked than read, more praised than examined. NIF Fellow Ram Ramaswamy’s deeply researched biography draws on letters, journals, family accounts, and unprecedented archival material to reconstruct the life of one of India’s most quoted and least understood intellectuals. With this book, the New India Foundation has now supported 40 titles. ‘D.D. Kosambi: One Life, Many Worlds’ by NIF Round 11 Fellow

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