Library's private and unique collection includes many first-edition books by renowned benefactors.
Books Received From Personal Collections
The library is very fortunate to have received a rare and priceless collection of original books from the following philanthropists. The library extends its gratitude to all these donors and appreciates their willingness to part with their personal collection for the public good. Thanks to these generosities, today every fourth book in the library is from these donations!
Other Personal Collections
| 11 | Praful Bidwai | 1004 |
| 12 | Toby Sinclair | 952 |
| 13 | J C Kapur | 887 |
| 14 | Thomas Metcalf and Barbara Metcalf | 779 |
| 15 | Paritosh Sen | 651 |
| 16 | B. G. Verghese | 568 |
| 17 | Arunava Sinha | 565 |
| 18 | Ashish Dhawan | 562 |
| 19 | Ramachandra Guha | 527 |
| 20 | P N Haksar | 480 |
| 21 | Deb Mukherjee | 450 |
| 22 | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | 445 |
| 23 | B K Srivastava | 417 |
| 24 | Chandrashekhar Dasgupta | 404 |
| 25 | Malabika Sarkar | 396 |
| 26 | Kapil Raj | 298 |
| 27 | Ela Dutta | 264 |
| 28 | Shivshankar Menon | 259 |
| 29 | A P Saxena | 241 |
| 30 | Tansen Sen | 238 |
| 31 | Madhavi Menon and Jonathan Gil Harris | 231 |
| 32 | Neeraj Nevatia | 224 |
| 33 | Amit Chandra | 213 |
| 34 | Maya Saran and Kranti Saran | 208 |
| 35 | Anita Guerrini | 207 |
| 36 | Shobita Punja | 194 |
| 37 | Manender Mann | 185 |
| 38 | Asani Sarkar | 140 |
| 39 | Mahesh Rangarajan | 140 |
| 40 | Rudrangshu Mukherjee | 139 |
| 41 | Madhu Sarin | 127 |
| 42 | Rakesh Mohan | 101 |
| 43 | Upinder Singh | 71 |
| 44 | Indira Gopal | 62 |
| 45 | Rajendra Bhatia | 62 |
| 46 | Priyank Narayan | 53 |
| 47 | Priyamvada Trivedi | 51 |
| 48 | YIF Department | 46 |
| 49 | Duleep Matthai | 36 |
| 50 | A N D Haksar | 35 |
| 51 | History Department, Ashoka University | 25 |
| 52 | Palgrave Macmillan | 16 |
| 53 | Pramath Raj Sinha | 16 |
| 54 | Justin McCarthy | 16 |
| 55 | Gilles Vernier | 10 |
| 56 | Mandakini Dubey | 10 |
| 57 | Vinita Shastri | 9 |
| 58 | Guhan Venkat H. | 8 |
| 59 | Roy Perrett | 6 |
| 60 | Saikat Majumdar | 6 |
| 61 | Ali Imran | 4 |
| 62 | Vineet Gupta | 3 |
| 63 | Rangashri Kishore | 3 |
| 64 | Chandana Singh | 2 |
| 65 | Pulapre Balakrishnan | 2 |
| Total | 42634+ |
