


I was fortunate to learn under Prof Dhavalikar, Was supposed to be there for a short period, but after convincing my teachers I We now call the new archaeology or scientific archaeology were applied here. For the first time, most of the elements of what

Even now it is considered the best archaeological excavationĬonducted in the country and the published report on that site is considered Masters in Deccan College I participated in the excavation at Inamgaon, 90 kmįrom Pune. It wasĬonvenient as I was working night shifts in a company and had to go to college But Iĭecided to study archaeology because the college was very close to home. We are old and somebody has to take over. I spoke to other teachersĪt the college who encouraged told me, ‘You should study archaeology because Will you do after MA?’ I was a little disappointed. HeĪsked me, ‘Why do you want to do archaeology? There is no scope, no jobs. I went and met the head of the archaeologyĭepartment, a very well-known pre-historian called Professor V. One of my teachers suggested I do my masters in archaeologyįrom Deccan College, Pune. in History from Nowrosjee WadiaĬollege in Pune. Interested in archaeology when it wasn’t a popular choice for education orĪbout archaeology was after I completed my B.A. Haryana, will crack the mystery about who the Harappans really were and how the Research, based on new DNA evidence from the Harappan site of Rakhigarhi, Stone age, 3000-2000 BCE-sites in Madhya Pradesh and the Deccan, to protohistoricĪnd early historic sites in Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Pune’s Deccan College and has headed a number of excavations around theĬountry, from Harappan sites in Gujarat and Haryana to Chalcolithic-Copper Shinde is one of India’s leading field archaeologists.
