Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at

Ashoka University Ashoka University is a philanthropy-driven private university located in the National Capital Region (NCR), India, focusing on a liberal education in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Sciences. The university is on a mission to buil ...

. She was previously on the faculty of the department of history at the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

. She is the winner of the 2013

Infosys Prize 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 re ...

, in the humanities, for her work in archaeology and the 2016 awardee of the

John F. Richards John F. Richards (November 3, 1938 – August 23, 2007) was a historian of South Asia and in particular of the Mughal Empire. He was Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina, and a recipient in 2007 of the Distinguished Contributio ...

prize for her book ''Ashoka in Ancient India''. She also served on the Humanities jury for the

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).

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