Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c3.17

c3.17

To no less a degree the writer is indebted to Shri P. C. DAS GUPTA, Director of Archaeology, Government of West Bengal, for enabling him to visit the site of Rajar Dhipi and keeping him posted about his latest discoveries in the Ajay Valley. The author is also thankful to Professor G. R. SHARMA, Professor of Ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad, for similar courtesy shown to him; to Professor K. D. BAJPAI, Professor of Ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology, University of Saugar, for giving him an advance report on his excavations at Eran; to Dr. SATYAPRAKASH, Director of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan, and Shri R. C. AGRAWAL, Superintendent of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Rajasthan; to Shri J. M. NANAVATI, Assistant Director of Archaeology, Government of Gujarat and his colleague Shri M. A. DHAKY; Dr. M. SESHADRI, Professor of Indology and Director of Archaeology, Mysore, who was kind enough to show him his finds from T. Narasipur during the exhibition held in Baroda in 1960 and Dr. M. G. DIKSHIT, Reader in Ancient Indian History, University of Nagpur. The author is also thankful to Dr. D. LAL and Professor M. G. K. MENON of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, for their help in supplying him almost immediately the dates of the charcoal samples from his excavations at Ahar as well as Navdatoli and Nevasa. Likewise he is also indebted to Miss ELIZABETH RALPH of the Applied Science Centre for Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., for C-14 determinations of samples from Nevasa, Navdatoli and Chandoli.