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Friends:

 

It gives me great pleasure to inform you of the first two books published under the “First Books” initiative of the Rocher Foundation. They are:

 

(1) Sonam Kachru, Other Lives. Mind and World in Indian Buddhism, Columbia University Press, 2021. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/other-lives/9780231200011

 

(2) Samuel Wright, A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early India, 1500-1700 CE., Oxford University Press, 2021. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197568163.001.0001/oso-9780197568163

 

I want to alert young scholars once again to this great initiative, which hopefully will facilitate the publication of first books.

 

Patrick Olivelle

 

The Ludo and Rosane Rocher Foundation has created a program that provides subventions for the publication of "first books" by young scholars in the field of classical Indology. The scholars are expected to submit a CV, a book title, summary, and table of contents to the Foundation, with a list of potential publishers. These should be academic presses: either US university presses or the US offices of foreign academic presses, such as Oxford University Press. Upon preliminary approval, the author will send the full manuscript for review. The manuscript should be in publishable form, that is, one that the author sends to a publisher, in most cases a thoroughly revised dissertation. Once a book has been approved by the Foundation, it will provide a subvention of $ 5000 to the press that undertakes to publish it. It will be the responsibility of the author to find a suitable press. The published book must carry on the Copyright page the acknowledgment: “Published with the support of The Ludo and Rosane Rocher Foundation.” This program is intended to support young scholars in the early years of their postdoctoral academic life. 

 

Submissions should be addressed to the Foundation’s General Editor, Prof. J. Patrick Olivelle jpo@austin.utexas.edu