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
1Roderick Macfarquhar7183
2Sham Lal Gupta5755
3Devahuti Damodar Collection 3485
4D P Chattopadhyay 2905
5Sheldon Pollock and Allison Busch2754
6Nayan Chanda and Geetanjali Chanda 2063
7H.M. Patel1309
8Toby Sinclair952
9Thomas Metcalf and Barbara Metcalf779
10Paritosh Sen 651

Other Personal Collections

11Ashish Dhawan 572
12B. G. Verghese568
13Ramachandra Guha 527
14P N Haksar480
15Pratap Bhanu Mehta445
16Dilip Simeon439
17Malabika Sarkar396
18Kapil Raj298
19Srinath Raghavan273
20Madhavi Menon and Gill Harris231
21Neeraj Nevatia224
22Maya Saran and Kranti Saran208
23Anita Guerini207
24Amit Chandra197
25Shobita Punja194
26Manender Mann185
27Asani Sarkar140
28Mahesh Rangarajan140
29Madhu Sarin127
30Rudrangshu Mukherjee120
31Rakesh Mohan101
32Indira Gopal62
33Arunava Sinha62
34Rajendra Bhatia50
35YIF Department46
36Duleep Matthai36
37History Department, Ashoka University25
38Palgrave Macmillan16
39Pramath Raj Sinha16
40Justin McCarthy16
41Gilles Vernier10
42Mandakini Dubey10
43Roy Perrett6
44Saikat Majumdar6
45Ali Imran4
46Vineet Gupta3
47Rangashri Kishore3
48Chandana Singh2
49Pulapre Balakrishnan2
Total34958