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{{Short description|Indian archaeologist (1930–2018)}}
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'''Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar''' ('''M. K. Dhavalikar'''; 16 May 1930 – 27 March 2018) was an Indian historian and archaeologist.

== Life and career ==

Dhavalikar was born in 1930 at Patas, [[Bombay State]] (now [[Maharashtra]]). He received B.A. in Economics and Political Science in 1952 and M.A. in 1958. He received Ph.D. in Archaeology in 1964 from [[University of Poona]] for work in ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology,<ref name=encyclopedia>
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He served the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] as Technical Assistant from 1953 to 1965. He was a lecturer in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology at the [[Nagpur University]] from 1965 to 1967. He served [[Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute|Deccan College]], [[Pune]], as Reader in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology from 1967 to 1980, and as Professor from 1980 to 1990. He held the positions of Joint-Director (1982–1985) and Director (1985–1990).<ref name=encyclopedia/>

Along with Z. D. Ansari, he conducted excavations at [[Kayatha]] during 1967-68.<ref name="Ranjit_2008">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FvjZVwYVmNcC&pg=PA309 |title=History of Agriculture in India, Up to C. 1200 A.D. |author=Ranjit Pratap Singh |editor=Vinod Chandra Srivastava |publisher=Concept |year=2008 |isbn=9788180695216 |page=310 }}</ref> Dhavalikar dated the discovered site to a period spanning from 2400 BCE to 2000 BCE (though [[Gregory Possehl]] places it between 2200 BCE and 2000 BCE).<ref name="PKB_2012">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/citycountryinear0000basa |url-access=registration |title=The City and the Country in Early India: A Study of Malwa |author=P. K. Basant |publisher=Primus |year=2012 |isbn=9789380607153 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/citycountryinear0000basa/page/78 78]–81 }}</ref>

The master archaeologist undertook excavations at Paunar (Maha-rashtra), Kayatha (Madhya Pradesh), Guhati (Assam), Inamgaon (Mah.), Hoggadehalli (Karnataka), Prabhas Patan and Kuntasi (Gujarat), Ape-gaon, Kandhar, Kaothe and Walki (Mah.), which encompassed the past from Harappan to medieval history. (Sites are cited chronologically.) All these excavations were followed by comprehensively published reports, some of which are recognised as classics of the field. (Shreenand L. Bapat, Obituary Notice, Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. 95, pages 173-175.)<ref name="SB_Obituary">{{cite journal |author=Shreenand Bapat | title = Obituary Notice: Professor Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar 16 May 1930 – 27 March 2018 |journal=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute |url = https://www.academia.edu/37411429 |date=2014 |volume=95 |pages=173–175 |jstor=26493990 |issn=0378-1143}}</ref>

Fifteen researchers were fortunate to receive their doctoral degrees under his guidance.<ref name="SB_Obituary"/>

Prof. Dhavalikar was elected a Trustee of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in 1987. He was unanimously re-elected five times and served in that office till 2013.<ref name="SB_Obituary"/>

== Honours ==
A number of honours were rightly conferred on Prof. Dhavalikar. He was awarded the fellowship of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (2010) and the first Tagore National Fellowship of the Govern-ment of India in the same year. In 2011 he received Padmaśrī, the fourth highest civilian award of the country. The Indian History Congress elected him its General President in 1999. He was a member of the Culture Group of the Planning Commission, and member of a number of committees and cultural delegations of the Government of India. His consultancy was sought by various apex bodies like the ASI, National Museum, National Institute of Design, Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu-sangrahalaya (Mumbai), etc. He was invited by several institutions of international and national repute to deliver learned lectures.<ref name="SB_Obituary"/>

==Publications==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=22oMAQAAMAAJ The Aryans: Myth and Archaeology] 2007
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=yCRuAAAAMAAJ Archaeology of Western India] 2003
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=UuRUGwAACAAJ Environment and Culture: a Historical Perspective] 2002
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=zQBuAAAAMAAJ Historical archaeology of India] 1999
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=DQFuAAAAMAAJ Indian Protohistory] 1997
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=M3BuAAAAMAAJ Kuntasi, a Harappan Emporium on West Coast] 1996 (Co-authors: M. R. Raval and Y. M. Chitalwala)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=wS1uAAAAMAAJ Cultural Imperialism: Indus Civilization in Western India] 1995
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=EJCAAAAAMAAJ The First Farmers of the Deccan] 1988
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=k-IFSgAACAAJ Excavations at Inamgaon Volume 1, Part 1] 1988 (Co-authors: H. D. Sankalia and Z. D. Ansari}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=35DP1Z-2dnYC Studies in Indian Archaeology] 1985 (Co-authors: H. D. Sankalia and S. B. Deo)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=AaZsQgAACAAJ Late Hinayana Caves of Western India] 1984
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=1x8uAAAAMAAJ Excavations at Kayatha] 1975 (Co-author: Z. D. Ansari)

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