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| workplaces = Professor of History at [[Ashoka University]]
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| known_for = Work in [[Archaeology]]
| prizes = [[John F. Richards]], [[Infosys Prize]]
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'''Nayanjot Lahiri''' is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at [[Ashoka University]].<ref name="TrautmanAshoka">{{cite news|last1=Trautman|first1=Thomas|title=Ashoka in Ancient India (book review)|url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=45005|accessdate=26 May 2016|publisher=H-net|date=May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/walk-back-to-the-past-take-a-tour-of-the-harappan-civilisation-in-a-delhi-museum/story-QmAd5ZAxUsl7773tYXXN0L.html|title=Walk back to the past: Take a tour of the Harappan civilisation in a Delhi museum}}</ref> She was previously on the faculty of the department of history at the [[University of Delhi]].<ref name="aufaculty">{{cite web|title=Ashoka University|url=https://www.ashoka.edu.in/academics/faculty/|website=www.ashoka.edu.in|accessdate=12 October 2016}}</ref>

She is the winner of the 2013 [[Infosys Prize]], in the humanities, for her work in archaeology<ref name="Infosys">{{cite news|title=Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2013/nayanjot-lahiri.asp|accessdate=26 May 2016|publisher=Infosys Science Foundation|date=2013}}</ref><ref name="IndiaInfosys">{{cite news|title=2013 Infosys Science Prize Winners Announced|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/infosys-2013-science-prize-winners-announced/1/324714.html|accessdate=26 May 2016|publisher=India Today|date=14 November 2013}}</ref> and the 2016 awardee of the [[John F. Richards]] prize for her book ''Ashoka in Ancient India''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/nayanjot-lahiri-bags-prize-for-book-on-ashoka/article9185483.ece|title=Nayanjot Lahiri bags prize for book on Ashoka}}</ref> She also served on the Humanities jury for the [[Infosys Prize]] from 2017 to 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Humanities Jury|first=Infosys Science Foundation|date=|title=Infosys Prize - Jury 2018|url=https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2018.asp#Humanities|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>

==Works==
Her books include ''The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes'' (1992) and ''Finding Forgotten Cities'' (2005). She has edited ''The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization'' (2000) and an issue of World Archaeology entitled ''The Archaeology of Hinduism'' (2004).<ref>{{cite book |last=Lahiri |first=Nayanjot |year=2005 |title=Finding Forgotten Cities |location=Ranikhet |publisher=Permanent Black |isbn=978-8178244648 }}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book|last1=Lahiri|first1=Nayanjot|author-mask=0|title=Ashoka in Ancient India|date=2015|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674057777|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057777|language=en}}
* {{cite book|last1=Lahiri|first1=Nayanjot|author-mask=0|title=Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was discovered|date=2012|publisher=Hachette India|isbn=9789350094198|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w68lobWerY8C|language=en}}
* {{cite book|editor2-last=Singh|editor2-first=Upinder|editor1-last=Lahiri|editor1-first=Nayanjot|editor-mask1=With|editor2-link=Upinder Singh|title=Ancient India: new research|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780198068303|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nILORQAACAAJ}}

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