Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar

Professor Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar (M. K. Dhavalikar) was born on 16 May 1930. Having graduated he served the Archaeological Survey of India as Technical Assistant from 1953 to 1965. He was a Lecturer in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology at the Nagpur University from 1965 to 1967. He served the Deccan College, Pune, as Reader in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology from 1967 to 1982, and as Professor from 1982 to 1990. He held the positions of Joint-Director (1982–1985) and Director (1985–1990). He has been awarded the fellowship of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (2010), and the Ravindranath Tagore Fellowship in Cultural Research by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2010). He has also been felicitated with the fourth highest civilian award of India "Padma Shri" (2011)^[1]

Publications

• The Aryans: Myth and Archaeology 2007
• Archaeology of Western India 2003
• Environment and Culture: a Historical Perspective 2002
• Historical archaeology of India 1999
• Indian Protohistory 1997
• Kuntasi, a Harappan Emporium on West Coast 1996 {Dhavalikar M.K., Raval M.R., and Chitalwala Y.M.}
• Cultural Imperialism: Indus Civilization in Western India 1995
• The First Farmers of the Deccan 1988
• Excavations at Inamgaon Volume 1, Part 1 1988 {Dhavalikar M.K., Sankalia H.D., and Ansari Z.D.}
• Studies in Indian Archaeology 1985 {Sankalia H.D., Deo S.B., and Dhavalikar M.K.}
• Late Hinayana Caves of Western India 1984
• Excavations at Kayatha 1975 {Ansari Z.D. and Dhavalikar M.K.}