Current Affairs - Awards and Honours - Discussion

Sunil Amrith, an Indian-origin historian and Yale University professor, won the 2025 British Academy Book Prize for his book The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years. The £25,000 prize honours outstanding non-fiction that deepens public understanding of global issues through scholarly research. Amrith’s work traces five centuries of human-environment interaction, exploring how empire, capitalism, and industrialization have shaped ecological change worldwide. His recognition underscores the growing importance of environmental history and highlights the contributions of Indian-origin scholars to global academic discourse. The British Academy praised his book for reframing history through an ecological lens.