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| name = Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1875|11|19 }}<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1950|5|13|1875|11|19}}<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| known_for = [[Archaeology]]<br />
| parents = [[Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar]] (father)<br />
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'''Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar''' ({{lang-mr|देवदत्त रामकृष्ण भांडारकर}}; 19 November 1875 – 13 May 1950) was an Indian archaeologist and [[Epigraphy|epigraphist]] who worked with the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] (ASI). Born in Marathi [[Gaud Saraswat Brahmin]] family, he was the son of eminent [[Indology|Indologist]], [[R. G. Bhandarkar]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Bhandarkar was born on 19 November 1875. On graduating in history, Bhandarkar joined the ASI and was posted to the western circle as an assistant to Henry Cousin.<ref name="contoursp23">{{cite book|title=Cultural Contours of India|page=23|author=Sathya Prakash|publisher=Abhinav Publications|year=1981}}</ref> As Assistant Superintendent, Bhandarkar worked in the then [[Rajputana]], excavating the city of Nagari in [[Chittorgarh district]] in 1915–16.<ref name="contoursp23" /> He succeeded [[George Thibaut]] as the [[Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture]] in the [[University of Calcutta]] and held the post from 1917 to 1936.<br />
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Gandhiji met Dr. Bhandarkar in 1915 at [[Poona|Pune]], [[Bombay Presidency]] in regards to the South African Indian question.<ref name="Poona and Madras">Gandhi (1940). [http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_with_Truth/Part_II/Poona_and_Madras Chapter "Poona And Madaras".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814123844/http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_with_Truth/Part_II/Poona_and_Madras |date=14 August 2016 }}</ref><br />
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As Superintending Archeologist of the Western Circle of ASI, he visited Mahenjodaro in 1911-12. He dismissed the ruins as only 200 years old, with 'bricks of a modern type' and 'a total lack of carved terra-cottas amidst the whole ruins'. [[John Keay]] had called his assessment as ''"''wrong in every detail, this statement must rank amongst archaeology's greatest gaffes''."''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Keay|first=John|title=India: A History|publisher=Harper Press|year=2010|language=English}}</ref><br />
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