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CONTENTS:-
1. Virendra Nath Misra: Archaeologist and human being.
2. Annoated bibliography of Prof. V.N. Misra’s Research publications (1962-2005).
3. Situating V.N. Misra in Indian Archaeology: a historiographical account.
4. Stone age cultures of Indravati Basin, District Koraput, Orissa.
5. A morphometric study of the Palaeolithic industries of Bhimbetka, Central India.
6. Early hunter gatherer adaptations in the Tirupati Valley, South India.
7. Early settlement patterns in Cuddapah District, Andhra Pradesh.
8. Microlithic sites in Tarafeni Valley, Midnapur District, West Bengal: a view in Hindsight.
9. A re-examination of the upper palaeolithic Damin Industries, Bansloi River Basin, Jharkhand.
10. Prehistoric pottery industries along the lost Sarasvati river of the great Indian desert.
11. Prehistoric rock paintings of Bhimbetka, Central India.
12. Archaeological explorations in Kumaun Himalayas.
13. Chalcolithic Ceramics of Balathal: a diachronic study.
14. Pre and proto history of South Western Andhra Pradesh.
15. Pre and protohistoric settlement pattern of the middle and lower Ganga Valley.
16. From archaeology of Indo-Roman trade to Indian Ocean archaeology.
17. Archaeological investigation in Bogra Dsitrict, Bangladesh.
18. Early historic Balathal: an artefactual approach.
19. Early historic ceramics of Mewar with special reference to Balathal, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
20. Prehistory and early history of South Kerala with special reference to District Kollam.
21. Early historic trade mechanism in Central and Western Orissa: a holistic perspective.
22. A study of the Nepalese bronzes from ancient to medieval periods.
23. Archaeozoological aspects of the prehistoric cultures of Western India.
24. Prehistoric settlement pattern of South Central Ganga Valley: an ethnoarchaeological perspective.
25. Evolution of society and culture of Orissa-based on a synthesis of archaeological, historical, linguistic and anthropological data. |
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| This book is different from the normal Felicitation volumes, which often, atleast in India, consist of indiscriminately collected articles. Instead, this volume has the gist of twenty-two updated Ph.D theses out of the twenty five completed under the guidance of Prof. V.N. Misra, former Director of the Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute. The area covered comprises India, Bangladesh and Nepal and the subjects covered are Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolitic, rock art, Harappan civilization, historical archaeology bronzes, ceramics, zooarchaeology and ethonoarchaeology. A volume of this kind is useful to all students of archaeology. It makes available to them the kind of research that has been carried out at the world famous Institute of Archaeology Deccan College. It will serve as a guide for writing high quality thesis on various themes of archaeology. The book contains the nodal work of some of the most established scholars in this field in South Asia in one place. Besides the 22 theses there are three papers related to Prof. V.N. Misra, which are of equally high academic quality. The first one, by the editor gives a biographical account of Prof. Misra as an archaeologist and human being. The second by P.P. Joglekar is an annotated bibliography Prof. Misra’s major research articles. The third is a critical evaluation of Prof. Misra’s position in the South Asian Archaeological context by K.K. Basa. |
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