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| Year | Book | Author |
| 2005 | The Algebra of Infinite Justice | Arundhati Roy |
| 2004 | The Mammaries of the Welfare State | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| 2003 | The Perishable Empire | Meenakshi Mukherjee |
| 2002 | A New World | Amit Chaudhari |
| 2001 | Rajaji: A Life (Biography) | Rajmohan Gandhi |
| 2000 | Cuckold (Novel) | Kiran Nagarkar |
| 1999 | The collected poems of A K Ramanujan (Poetry) | A K Ramanujan |
| 1998 | Final Solutions and Other Plays (Plays) | Mahesh Dattani |
| 1994 | Serendip (Poetry) | Dom Moraes |
| 1993 | After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism | GN Devy |
| 1992 | Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (Short stories) | Ruskin Bond |
| 1991 | The Trotter-Nama (Novel) | Allan Sealy |
| 1990 | That Long Silence (Novel) | Sashi Deshpande |
| 1989 | The Shadow Lines (Novel) | Amitav Ghosh |
