Professor Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar (M. K. Dhavalikar) was born on 16 May 1930. Having graduated he served the Archaeological Survey of India

Archaeological Survey of India

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 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

Deccan College

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, Pune

Pune

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, 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

Royal Asiatic Society

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 (2010), and the Ravindranath Tagore Fellowship in Cultural Research by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India

Government of India

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 (2010). He has also been felicitated with the fourth highest civilian award of India

India

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 "Padma Shri

Padma Shri

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" (2011)

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.}