Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c5.s5: Indian Universities
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c5.s5
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Indian Universities
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Soon after a modest beginning was made by a few Universities. The Calcutta University dug the laterite gravels in Mayurbhanj, Orissa. The Archaeological Survey, Government of India, in co-operation with the Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute and the Gujarat Research Society, Bombay, took up the clues in Gujarat left by ROBERT BRUCE FOOTE 50 years earlier. This stimulus given by the late Rao Bahadur K. N. Dikshit, has continued to inspire all subsequent work in India. A few more Universities—Baroda, Mysore and Allahabad—besides that of Poona and Calcutta, have entered the field. The Government of India have created a regular sub-department of prehistory in the Department of Archaeology, once again renamed Archaeological Survey of India.
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Official and academic recognition has thus been accorded to prehistory. The press is spreading the news of progress in the subject to the literate.
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However, there is not that social awareness and interest in the subject to strike deep roots. Probably this is due to mass illiteracy and poverty, and apathy of the intellectual classes to things of the past.