The New India Foundation (NIF) is inviting applications from translators across the country, applications opened on August 1, 2025, and the last date to apply will be December 31, 2025.
New India Foundation’s Translation Fellowships support the translation of significant non-fiction works from Indian languages into English, expanding access to Indian-language literature and deepening understanding of Independent India.
The Fellowship offers a six-month grant of ₹6 lakhs each to support fellows to translate a non-fiction work originally written in one of ten Indian languages, from 1850 onwards: Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil, and Urdu.
The Jury for these fellowships this year includes the NIF Trustees: political scientist Niraja Jayal Gopal, historian Srinath Raghavan, partner Trilegal Rahul Matthan, and entrepreneur Manish Sabharwal alongside the Language Expert Committee in all 10 languages, comprising of esteemed bilingual scholars, professors, academics and literary translators.
For more details and to apply, visit: www.newindiafoundation.org
Deadline: December 31, 2025
