Recent Research Trends in South Asian Archaeology (Proceedings of the Professor H. D. Sankalia Birth Centenary Seminar 10-12 December 2007)

Foreword Professors Irawat Karve, S. M. Katre and H. D. Sankalla occupy a place of pride in the twentieth-century history of higher learning and research in India. They made pioneering contributions to and were in fact largely respo for shaping the contours of the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics and archeology, respectively. It is remarkable that all three of them commenced and concluded their service careers at the Deccan College. This triumvirate, by virtue of their three-decade long and single-minded dedication to the cause of the institution since their appointment In 1939, wide range of scholarship, visionary planning and catholic or Advaitic bent of mind, soon transformed a Deccan-based educational institution into a world-class post-graduate and research centre. The Deccan College rightly earned a place in the International Directory of Anthropological Institutions brought out in 1964 by the reputed American research journal Current Anthropology.

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