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'''Kodayanallur Vadamamalachery Soundararajan''' (born 17 February 1925) is an Indian archaeologist who served as Superintendent of the Chennai circle and later, a Joint Director General of the [[Archaeological Survey of India]]. He was known for his pioneering work in excavating [[Stone Age]] and [[megalithic]] sites of [[South India]] along with [[Mortimer Wheeler]] and [[V. D. Krishnaswami]] in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Some of the sites excavated by Soundararajan include Sanur (near [[Chengalpattu]]) (1950), [[Kundrathur]] (1955–56), Perur (1970–71), Malayamputtu (1970–71) and Poompuhar (1970–71, 1973–74).<br />
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Soundararajan is known for excavating the submerged city of [[Puhar, Nagapattinam|Puhar]] in the 1970s. In 1990, he controversially remarked about the presence of an 11th-century AD Hindu shrine underneath the remains of [[Babri Masjid]] in [[Ayodhya]].<br />
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== Works ==<br />
; Papers<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Stone Age industries near Giddalur|journal=[[Ancient India (journal)|Ancient India]]|volume=7|year=1952}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=The lithic industries of Singrauli Basin|journal=Ancient India|volume=7|year=1952}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=The iconic development of the Tamils|journal=Proceedings and Transactions of the All-India Oriental Conference|volume=1|year=1953}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Studies in the Stone Age of Nagarjunakonda and its neighbourhood|journal=Ancient India|volume=14|year=1958}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Sanur 1950 & 1952 - A megalithic site in district Chingleput|journal=Ancient India|volume=15|year=1959}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=A magnificent Saptamatrika group and Parvati from Vadaval, North Gujarat|journal=Prince of Wales Museum Bulletin|volume=7|year=1959–60}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=The Typology of the Anantasayi Icon|journal=Artibus Asiae|year=1969|volume=29|pages=69–84}}<br />
; Books<br />
* {{cite book|title=Indian Temple styles|year=1972|place=New Delhi|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Early Chola Temple|place=Bombay|year=1973}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Glimpses of Indian Culture, History and Archaeology|publisher=Sundeep Prakashan|place=New Delhi|year=1980}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Invitation to Indian architecture|publisher=Arnold Heinemann|place=New Delhi|year=1984}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Kaveripattinam Excavations 1963-73|publisher=Archaeological Survey of India|year=1994}}<br />
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