Nayanjot Lahiri | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | St. Stephen's College |
Occupation | Professor of history |
Known for | Work in archaeology |
Awards | John F. Richards, Infosys Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History |
Institutions | Ashoka University |
Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University.[1][2] She was previously on the faculty of the department of history at the University of Delhi.[3]
She is the winner of the 2013 Infosys Prize, in the humanities, for her work in archaeology[4][5] and the 2016 awardee of the John F. Richards prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India.[6] She also served on the Humanities jury for the Infosys Prize from 2017 to 2018.[7]