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{{short description|Non-profit organisation operating in the Deccan region of India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}
{{more citations needed|date=November 2014}}

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The '''Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute''' is a non-profit organisation operating in the [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan region]] of [[India]], registered under Act 2 of [[The Indian Trusts Act, 1882]]. It is dedicated to the conservation and preservation of India’s natural, cultural, living, tangible and [[intangible cultural heritage|intangible heritage]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Call for common Telugu research centre|website=The Hindu|author= G Venkataramana Rao|date=19 August 2014|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/call-for-common-telugu-research-centre/article6330833.ece}}</ref>

== History ==
DACRI was founded in 2009 in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]  to promote historical and cultural research among the people of the Deccae. Since 2009, it has pioneered the conservation, protection and promotion of the cultural heritage and monumental grandeur of Deccan region.

In 2012, members of Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute (DACRI) and other archeologists and historians discovered a series of 20 [[megalithic]] burial cairn circles dating to 1000 BCE on a hillock in Madugala village in [[Mahbubnagar district]], India. The team also discovered a huge [[Satavahana dynasty|Satavahana]] site in an extent of 100 acres datable to between the 1st century BCE to 2nd Century CE.<ref>{{cite web|title=Megalithic burial sites found|website=The Hindu|date=11 February 2012|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/megalithic-burial-sites-found/article2881674.ece}}</ref>

== Publications ==
*Telaṅgāṇālō inumu, ukku pariśrama {{in lang|te}} by S Jaikishan; Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute, 2010
*Siddhanāgārjununi Rasēndramaṅgaḷaṃ {{in lang|te}} by Nāgārjuna, Siddha.; Kurrā Jitēndrabābu; Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute, 2010.
*Tragedy of Hyderabad {{in lang|en}} by Mir Laik Ali; Kurrā Jitēndrabābu; Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute, 2011.
*Kaumudīmahotsavaḥ {{in lang|sa}}  Vijjikā; Mānavalli Rāmakr̥ṣṇakavi; S K Ramanatha Sastri; Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute, 2015.

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[[Category:Archaeological research institutes]]
[[Category:Research institutes established in 2009]]
[[Category:Research institutes in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:2009 establishments in Andhra Pradesh]]