Puratattva
No. 34 (2003-04)
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Contents
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Obituaries
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Editorial ix
Articles

Lothal: A Harappan Port Town Revisited
S.C. Bindra 1

Archaeology of Birbhum: The Past Informs the Present
Subrata Chakrabarti 23


Rgveda: A Historical Outline and the Contribution of Rahul Sankrityayan
Varun Singh 34

New Light on the History of Pune City: Results of an Archaeological Rescue Excavation
Vasant Shinde, S.N. Rajaguru, Shweta Sinha Deshpande, Sanjay Deshpande, Prabodh Shirvalkar, P. Balkawade, P.P. Joglekar, S. Deo, S. Salim and Neha Kothari 52

The First Neoloth in India- A Review with Special Reference to Karnataka
C.B. Patil 63


Karakambadi: A late Early Historic Glass Production Centre

Alok Kumar Kanungo 67

Skeletal Remains from the Kudatini-sarcophagus burial
Veena Mushrif, Nicole Boivin, Ravi Korisettar and S.R. Walimbe 74

Buddhist Stupas in Haryana: New Evidence		 top
Arun Kesarwani and S.K. Vashist 87

Ayodhya Vishnu-Hari Temple Inscription
K.V. Ramesh 98


The Genre of Circular Temples in North India
B.R. Mani 104

Ramayana, Mahabharata and Archaeology
K.N. Dikshit 114

Notes and News

Newly Discovered Rock Paintings from Nagargota in Maharashtra
G.K. Mane 119

Lapis Lazuli in Protohistoric and Historic Context
Sushmita Sen 122

Unpublished Copper Hoard from Bhandar, District Pali
Ambika Dhaka 127

Indian Archaeology Today - A Mature and Scientific Discipline
Vasant Shinde 131

Buddhist Remains in District Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh)
Jyoti Chandra 134

Panchanna Ganesa from British Museum- An Iconographical Study
M. Krishna Kumari 140

Babour Temples of Jammu
Anita Billawaria 146

Ganesa Images in Himachal Pradesh- An Iconographical Study
Arun Kumar Singh 149

Cement and Mortar in the Ancient Structures
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Vibha Tripathi and Devendra Mohan 155

Brief Report on a few Recent Excavations
Gency Chaudhury 160

Major Projects

Atlas of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization
S.P. Gupta 165

Growth of Cities in Ancient India
K.S. Ramachandran 167

Select Earthquake Affected Monuments of Gujarat
K.N. Dikshit 171

Book Reviews 

Ashok Vardhan Shetty, Excavations at Mangudi
K.S. Ramachandran 178

Ashok Vardhan Shetty, Excavations at Perur
K.S. Ramachandran 178

B.B. Lal, B.K. Thapar, J.P. Joshi & Madhu Bala, Excavations at Kalibangan
S.P. Gupta 179

Durga Dutta Sharma, Kampilya Mahatmaya
R.P. Sharma 180

Usha Agarwal, Directory of Museums in India, 2003
R.P. Sharma 181

D.P. Tewari, Excavations at Charda
Sonali Gupta 181

Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, Indo Aryan Migration Debate 		 top
Vijay Laxmi Singh 181

K. Paddayya, Recent Studies in Indian Archaeology
K.N. Dikshit 182

Mani Kamerkar and Soonu Dhunjishah, From the Iranian Plateau to the Shores of Gujarat
R.P. Sharma 183

Noboru Karashima (ed), Ancient and Medieval Commercial Testimony of Inscriptions and Ceramic-sherds
T. Arun Raj 183

O.P. Agrawal and Nanda Amara Wickramasinghe, Materials and Techniques of Ancient Wall Paintings of Sri Lanka
K.N. Dikshit 184

Yasuda, Yoshinori, (ed.), The Origin of Pottery and Agriculture
K.N. Dikshit 184

Anuradha V. Kumar, (ed.), Conservation of Building Stones 
Gency Chaudhury 185

S. Raja Gopal, (ed.), Kaveri-Studies in Epigraphy, Archaeology and History
T. Arun Raj 185

D.P. Tewari, Antiquarian Remains from Kalli Pachchhim Excavations
Gency Chaudhury 186

K. Rajan, Archaeology, Principles and Methods		  
K.S. Ramachandran 186

Annual Report
Report of the XXXVI Annual Conference of Indian Archaeological Society held at State Institute of Archaeology, Art History, Conservation & Museology, Hill Palace, Thripunithura, Kerala 188

Balance Sheet
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Office Bearers 193
Board of Management 194
Plates 195


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