Nayanjot Lahiri

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. Provided by Wikipedia