About Nayanjot Lahiri
Born 1960. Nayanjot Lahiri is an Indian archaeologist and historian, known for Archaeology.
Nayanjot Lahiri (born 1960) is a renowned historian and archaeologist of ancient India.
She studied at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and at the Department of History, University of Delhi.
She has taught at Hindu College (1982–1993) and University of Delhi (1994–2016) is currently a professor of history at Ashoka University.
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.
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Indian archeologist and historian
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Nayanjot Lahiri is an archaeologist and historian.
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Nayanjot Lahiri is known for Archaeology.
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