Aman Nath

Aman Nath (born 1950) is an Indian historian, writer, hotelier, and architectural restorer of ruins. He began his work with an 18th-century haveli in Haryana (1984) and the 15th-century Neemrana Fort-Palace in Rajasthan (1986), is the Founder of Neemrana Fort-Palace and the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Neemrana Hotels chain. Today, he is credited with pioneering the changed end-use of heritage buildings into hotels — making it a virtual movement in India. Since starting in 1991, Neemrana has brought back to life some 32 heritage properties and converted them into non-hotel hotels or heritage hotels.

Nath possesses a heightened sense of time against the backdrop of the cosmic clock. He was the first to recognise the immense tourism potential in restoring unlisted ruins, which led to the creation of Neemrana—India’s largest private-sector initiative in the heritage tourism sector. For his contribution to the heritage tourism movement in India, he has received numerous accolades: trade, State, National, and international honours, including Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Government of India and Condé Nast Traveller, an Aga Khan Award nomination, and the Légion d'honneur from the President of France.

Nath has published fifteen illustrated books on Rajasthan and Indian arts.

He has written 16 iconic, large-format books on historic and pilgrimage destinations such as Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Pushkar. He authored the centennial history of the Tatas, and the sesquicentennial commemorative tome for Shapoorji Pallonji. He also served as the creative director for a book on pharma giants Cipla. Two of his books are so designed that they open out to become two metres in size ! These are routinely presented to Heads of State and dignitaries visiting India.

In June 2016, Nath and five others, filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. This resulted in the 2018 landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar and others v. Union of India in which the Supreme Court unanimously declared the law unconstitutional "in so far as it criminalises consensual sexual conduct between adults of the same sex".