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 | Srinath Raghavan | 1149 |
| 12 | Arindam Chakrabarti | 1117 |
| 13 | Arunava Sinha | 1047 |
| 14 | Praful Bidwai | 1004 |
| 15 | Shail Mayaram | 972 |
| 16 | Toby Sinclair | 952 |
| 17 | Kavita Singh | 944 |
| 18 | J C Kapur | 887 |
| 19 | Thomas Metcalf and Barbara Metcalf | 779 |
| 20 | Paritosh Sen | 651 |
| 21 | B. G. Verghese | 568 |
| 22 | Ashish Dhawan | 562 |
| 23 | Ramachandra Guha | 527 |
| 24 | P N Haksar | 480 |
| 25 | Deb Mukherjee | 450 |
| 26 | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | 445 |
| 27 | B K Srivastava | 417 |
| 28 | Chandrashekhar Dasgupta | 404 |
| 29 | Malabika Sarkar and Kelvin Everest | 396 |
| 30 | Suresh Kohli | 366 |
| 31 | Kapil Raj | 298 |
| 32 | Ajit Kumar Ghose | 294 |
| 33 | Ela Dutta | 264 |
| 34 | Shivshankar Menon | 259 |
| 35 | S R Mehrotra | 254 |
| 36 | A P Saxena | 241 |
| 37 | Tansen Sen | 238 |
| 38 | Madhavi Menon and Jonathan Gil Harris | 231 |
| 39 | Amit Chandra | 288 |
| 40 | Neeraj Nevatia | 224 |
| 41 | Lalit Joshi | 216 |
| 42 | Maya Saran and Kranti Saran | 208 |
| 43 | Anita Guerrini | 207 |
| 44 | Shobita Punja | 194 |
| 45 | Manender Mann | 185 |
| 46 | Cheistha Kochhar | 168 |
| 47 | Suman Bery | 151 |
| 48 | Asani Sarkar | 140 |
| 49 | Mahesh Rangarajan | 140 |
| 50 | Rudrangshu Mukherjee | 139 |
| 51 | Priyank Narayan | 138 |
| 52 | Madhu Sarin | 127 |
| 53 | Deepak Nayyar | 121 |
| 54 | Kamal Datta | 117 |
| 55 | Parmanand | 114 |
| 56 | N.D. Jayal | 108 |
| 57 | Rakesh Mohan | 101 |
| 58 | Rajendra Bhatia | 99 |
| 59 | Upinder Singh | 71 |
| 60 | Rahul Bhasin | 65 |
| 61 | Indira Gopal | 62 |
| 62 | Priyamvada Trivedi | 51 |
| 63 | YIF Department | 46 |
| 64 | S.B. Datta | 40 |
| 65 | Duleep Matthai | 36 |
| 66 | A N D Haksar | 35 |
| 67 | History Department, Ashoka University | 25 |
| 68 | Suman Mathur | 19 |
| 69 | Palgrave Macmillan | 16 |
| 70 | Pramath Raj Sinha | 16 |
| 71 | Justin McCarthy | 16 |
| 72 | Deccan Heritage Foundation | 15 |
| 73 | Gilles Vernier | 10 |
| 74 | Mandakini Dubey | 10 |
| 75 | Vinita Shastri | 9 |
| 76 | Guhan Venkat H. | 8 |
| 77 | Roy Perrett | 6 |
| 78 | Saikat Majumdar | 6 |
| 79 | Ali Imran | 4 |
| 80 | Vineet Gupta | 3 |
| 81 | Rangashri Kishore | 3 |
| 82 | Chandana Singh | 2 |
| 83 | Pulapre Balakrishnan | 2 |
| Total | 50900+ |
