Nayanjot Lahiri

Nayanjot Lahiri
Nationality	Indian
Known for	Work in Archaeology
Awards	John F. Richards, Infosys Prize
Scientific career
Fields	History
Institutions	Professor of History at Ashoka University

Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University. She was previously on the faculty of the department of history at the University of Delhi.

She is the winner of the 2013 Infosys Prize, in the humanities, for her work in archaeology and the 2016 awardee of the John F. Richards prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India. She also served on the Humanities jury for the Infosys Prize from 2017 to 2018.

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).

Bibliography

• Ashoka in Ancient India. Harvard University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780674057777.
• Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was discovered. Hachette India. 2012. ISBN 9789350094198.
• With Singh, Upinder, eds. (2010). Ancient India: new research. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198068303.