Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c3.1

c3.1

THE University of Bombay instituted a new series of lectures named after the late Pandit Dr. BHAGWANLAL INDRAJI. BHAGWANLAL INDRAJI has been known as a pioneer worker in epigraphy, numismatics and other allied subjects of historical archaeology. Many of his conclusions arrived at after a great deal of careful study and field-work have not been, for the last 100 years, refuted, which testifies to his great scholarship. Much is written about his epigraphical and numismatical work. It is not, however, realized that BHAGWANLAL was also a great and careful excavator. Even without undergoing any training in this discipline of excavation, as in the disciplines of epigraphy and numismatics, his observations on the stratigraphy of the burial mound at Govardhan, about six miles west of Nasik will do credit to any archaeologist of today, whether trained by Sir MORTIMER WHEELER or General PITT RIVERS in England. This work of BHAGWANLAL done in 1888 should be noted, because it has escaped the attention of the writers of his biography, and in this era of scientific archaeology, we should credit the person not only for the work he did in epigraphy and numismatics but in scientific excavation as well.