The Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards in India to recognize research. Year Mathematical Sciences Life Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Engineering and Computer Science 2008 Manindra Agrawal - - - - 2009 Ashoke Sen Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan Thanu Padmanabhan Economics - Abhijit Banerjee History - Upinder Singh - 2010 Chandrashekhar Khare Chetan Eknath Chitnis Sandip Trivedi Social Anthropology - Nandini Sundar Sociology - Amita Baviskar Ashutosh Sharma 2011 Kannan Soundararajan Imran Siddiqi Sriram Ramaswamy Economics - Raghuram G. Rajan Political Science and International Relations - Pratap Bhanu Mehta Kalyanmoy Deb 2012 Manjul Bhargava Satyajit Mayor Ayyappanpillai Ajayagosh Contemporary Literature - Amit Chaudhuri History - Sanjay Subrahmanyam Ashish Lele
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