Nayanjot Lahiri
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]
Works
Her books include The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (1992), Finding Forgotten Cities (2005) and Ashoka in Ancient India (2015) . She has edited The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2000) and an issue of World Archaeology entitled The Archaeology of Hinduism (2004).[8]
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.
References
- ^ Trautman, Thomas (May 2016). "Ashoka in Ancient India (book review)". H-net. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "Walk back to the past: Take a tour of the Harappan civilisation in a Delhi museum". 28 July 2017.
- ^ "Ashoka University". www.ashoka.edu.in. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri". Infosys Science Foundation. 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "2013 Infosys Science Prize Winners Announced". India Today. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "Nayanjot Lahiri bags prize for book on Ashoka". The Hindu.
- ^ Humanities Jury, Infosys Science Foundation. "Infosys Prize - Jury 2018".
- ^ Lahiri, Nayanjot (2005). Finding Forgotten Cities. Ranikhet: Permanent Black. ISBN 978-8178244648.
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