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An old ticket for the heritage monuments of India, issued by the Archaeological Survey of India. The Archaeological Survey of India is an attached office of the Ministry of Culture. Under the provisions of the AMASR Act of 1958, the ASI administers more than 3650 ancient monuments, archaeological sites and remains of national importance. These ...
He was Head of the Archaeological Survey, Western India, 1873, and of South India, 1881. From 1886 to 1889 he was Director General, Archaeological Survey of India. [1] In 1881 the University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters (LLD). [5] He retired to Edinburgh around 1892.
Cunningham provided the Archaeological Survey of India with much-needed organization and expertise after he left the Army in 1861. [2] In his capacity as the first Director General, he carried out excavations in significant ancient towns, issued thirty volumes of archaeological papers, and assessed over 725 sites.
Thapar was born to a cloth merchant in Ludhiana on 18 October 1921. On completing his M.A. in History from the University of Punjab, Lahore, Thapar joined the Archaeological Survey of India and trained under Mortimer Wheeler at the newly established Institute of Archaeology in Taxila.
Scholarly investigation into Indian archaeology was largely influenced by Alexander Cunningham, who became the first director of the Archaeological Survey of India, which was established in 1861. Cunningham along with various assistants visited many sites and monuments of archaeological importance in India.
In 1940, he was promoted to the rank of the Deputy Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India and then the rank of the Joint Director-General in 1945. In 1948, Chakravarti succeeded Mortimer Wheeler as the Director General of the ASI serving in this position till 1950. [5] He was the first Indian to hold this rank in Independent India.
Braj Basi Lal (2 May 1921 – 10 September 2022) was an Indian writer and archaeologist. [1] He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972 and has served as Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.
Archaeological Survey of India Sir John Hubert Marshall CIE FBA (19 March 1876, Chester , England – 17 August 1958, Guildford , England) was an English archaeologist who was Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. [ 1 ]