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|name = A. B. Walawalkar<br />
|image=AB Walawalkar 1999 stamp of India.jpg<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1897|12|27}}<br />
|birth_place = Walawal, [[Kudal]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1970|12|23|1897|12|27}}<br />
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|citizenship = India<br />
|nationality = Indian<br />
|fields = [[Indian Railways]], [[Konkan Railway]], [[Konkan Railway Corporation]]<br />
|workplaces = [[Vadodara]], [[Mumbai]], [[Manglore]]<br />
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'''A. B. Walawalkar''' (27 December 1897 – 23 December 1970) was an [[India|Indian]] railway engineer, [[Epigraphy|epigraphist]], and historian. He is regarded as the founder of [[Konkan Railway]]. Born on 27 December 1897, he was from the village of [[Walawal]] in [[Kudal]] Taluka of [[Sindhudurg District]] in [[Maharashtra]]. He belongs to [[Gomantak Maratha Samaj|Naik Maratha Samaj]] of Sindhudurg.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
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=== Railway engineering ===<br />
Shri Arjun Balwant Walawalkar joined Central India Railway (presently [[Western Railway zone|Western Railway]]) in its Engineering Drawing Department in 1922. In 1952 he published a booklet on [[Konkan Railway]] Project. He delivered seminars and wrote many articles in local and national newspapers about this project. Many people criticized Walawalkar, believing the project was not useful.<br />
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=== Indian epigraphy and history ===<br />
Besides his public career, he was an eminent epigraphist. He studied the [[Early Indian epigraphy|Brahmi epigraphy in ancient India]]. He tried to decipher the [[Indus script]]. He suggested a theory of development of the Indian epigraphic system according to the [[Shiva Sutras|Maheshwara Sutra]]s. He also proposed that the Indus script is akin to the Assyrian cuneiform & both have developed from an ancient Indic script, which he called 'Pre-Ashokan Brahmi'.<ref>Decipherment of a pre-Aśokan Brahmi writing found engraved on a Babylonian Tablet'', J.B.B.R.A.S., N.S. Vol. 29, part I, 1954.</ref><br />
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He also studied medieval inscriptions in South Konkan & proposed new theories about the origin of the [[Shilahara dynasty]] & Samant feudals of Kudal. He theorized that Khem Savant rulers were descendants of the medieval Kshatriya Samant feudals, who migrated to Konkan during reign of the Shilaharas.<ref>मठगांवचा शिलालेख आणि कुडाळ प्रांताचा प्राचीन इतिहास - अ. ब. वालावलकर, १९३२. (in Marathi)</ref><br />
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== External links ==<br />
* http://www.irfca.org/articles/vikas/stamps.html<br />
* https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6050237W/Pre-Asokan_Brahmi<br />
* http://colnect.com/hi/stamps/stamp/161724-ABWalawalkar<br />
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[[Category:1897 births]]<br />
[[Category:1970 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian people in rail transport]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Maharashtra]]<br />
[[Category:Indian epigraphers]]<br />
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