Badri Narayan (born 5 October 1965), is an Indian social historian and professor based in Allahabad, India. He is associated with the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, and has received the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2004-05) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2007). [1] He was awarded Sahitya Academy Award 2022 for Hindi for his poetry collection ‘Tumdi Ke Shabd’. [2] [3]