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Ghulam Yazdani: First Indian Chronicler of the Deccan
What do the historic sites of Bidar, Mandu, Naldurg, Telangana’s Ramappa Temple and the Ajanta and Ellora caves have in common? Well, it’s the legendary archaeologist Ghulam Yazdani, who was the first to study and document these sites. Yet he is barely remembered. We trace his journey
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Mortimer Wheeler: Rebooting Indian Archaeology
Mortimer Wheeler was quite disappointed with India but he approached the country’s archaeology with a scientific precision that changed the discipline forever. Catch the story of the world-renowned archaeologist who transformed the ASI and inspired a generation of field archaeologists in India