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] Her books include The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (1992), Finding Forgotten Cities (2005) and Ashoka in Ancient India (2015).