Dee Ahluwalia
for The Buddha of Suburbia

Jataneel Banerjee
Vocalist/composer

Ankur Bahl
for The Buddha of Suburbia

Neil Basu
for Turmoil: 30 Years of Policin, Politics and Prejudice

Nikki Bedi
for The Arts Hour on BBC World Service

Milli Bhatia
for Blue Mist

Sudha Bhuchar
for Virdee

Bradford City of Culture 2025

Bradford Literature Festival

Reeta Chakrabarti,
Broadcaster and Author

Nilesha Chauvet
for Her Two Lives

Niraj Chag
Composer

Amar Chadha-Patel
for The Decameron

Professor Nandini Das
for Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

Soumik Datta
Sarod player

Sam Dalrymple
for Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

A A Dhand
for Virdee

Kulvinder Ghir
for Virdee

Hunger Burns: The Bengal Famine in 1948

Stephen P Huyler
for Transformed by India: A Life

Waris Hussein
Film director

Shanay Jhaveri
for The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998

Natasha Jayetileke
for The Buddha of Suburbia

Adam Karim
for Guards at the Taj

Rani Khanam
for Songs of the Bulbul

Yasmeen Khan
for EastEnders

Iqbal Khan
for Animal Farm

Amina Khayyam
Artistic Director, Amina Khayyam Dance Company

Mavin Khoo
Creative Associate, Akram Khan Company

Sophie Khan Levy
for EastEnders

Cauvery Madhavan
for The Inheritance

Nida Manzoor
for We Are Lady Parts

Migration Museum
All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain

Professor Partha Mitter
Art historian

Anjli Mohindra
for The Years

Saima Mohsin
Sky News Presenter

Ram Murali
for Death in the Air

Staz Nair
for Virdee

Rishi Nair
for Grantchester

Aakash Odedra
for Songs of the Bulbul

Dr Avinash Paliwal
for India's Near East: A New History

Shammi Pithia
Composer

Vijay Rajput
Classical vocalist

Nayantara Roy
for The Magnificent Ruins

Saachi Sen
Singer-songwriter

Mikhail Sen
for The Merchant of Venice

Raj M Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff
for Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war

Dharambir Singh
Sitar player

Atima Srivastava
for The Crime She Didn't Commit

Susan Stronge
Curator, The Great Mughals at the V&A

Varada Sethu
for Doctor Who

Meera Syal
for A Tupperware of Ashes