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
3D P Chattopadhyay 2829
4Sheldon Pollock and Allison Busch2754
5Nayan Chanda and Geetanjali Chanda 2063
6H.M. Patel1309
7Toby Sinclair952
8Thomas Metcalf and Barbara Metcalf779
9Paritosh Sen 651
10Ashish Dhawan 572

Other Personal Collections

11B. G. Verghese568
12Ramachandra Guha 527
13P N Haksar480
14Pratap Bhanu Mehta445
15Dilip Simeon439
16Malabika Sarkar396
17Kapil Raj298
18Srinath Raghavan273
19Madhavi Menon and Gill Harris231
20Neeraj Nevatia224
21Maya Saran and Kranti Saran208
22Anita Guerini207
23Amit Chandra197
24Shobita Punja194
25Manender Mann185
26Asani Sarkar140
27Mahesh Rangarajan140
28Madhu Sarin127
29Rudrangshu Mukherjee120
30Rakesh Mohan101
31Indira Gopal62
32Arunava Sinha62
33Rajendra Bhatia50
34YIF Department46
35Duleep Matthai36
36History Department, Ashoka University25
37Palgrave Macmillan16
38Pramath Raj Sinha16
39Justin McCarthy16
40Gilles Vernier10
41Mandakini Dubey10
42Roy Perrett6
43Saikat Majumdar6
44Ali Imran4
45Vineet Gupta3
46Rangashri Kishore3
47Chandana Singh2
48Pulapre Balakrishnan2
Total24715