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!

Sr.No.Name of DonorNo. of Books Received
1Sham Lal Gupta4366
2Devahuti Damodar Collection 3485
3Sheldon Pollock and Allison Busch2754
4Nayan Chanda and Geetanjali Chanda 2063
5H.M. Patel1309
6Toby Sinclair952
7Thomas Metcalf and Barbara Metcalf779
8Paritosh Sen 651
9Ashish Dhawan 572
10B. G. Verghese 568

Other Personal Collections

11.Ramachandra Guha 527
12.P N Haksar480
13.Pratap Bhanu Mehta445
14.Dilip Simeon439
15.Malabika Sarkar396
16.Kapil Raj298
17.Srinath Raghavan273
18.Madhavi Menon and Gill Harris231
19.Neeraj Nevatia224
20.Maya Saran and Kranti Saran208
21.Anita Guerini207
22.Amit Chandra197
23.Shobita Punja194
24.Manender Mann185
25.Asani Sarkar140
26.Mahesh Rangarajan140
27.Madhu Sarin127
28.Rudrangshu Mukherjee120
29.Rakesh Mohan101
30.Indira Gopal62
31.Arunava Sinha62
32.Rajendra Bhatia50
33.YIF Department46
34.Duleep Matthai36
35.History Department, Ashoka University25
36.Palgrave Macmillan16
37.Pramath Raj Sinha16
38.Justin McCarthy16
39.Gilles Vernier10
40.Mandakini Dubey10
41.Roy Perrett6
42.Saikat Majumdar6
43.Ali Imran4
44.Vineet Gupta3
45.Rangashri Kishore3
46.Chandana Singh2
47.Pulapre Balakrishnan2
Total21886