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Personalities - Archaeology
* 11 Jul 2022
In 1861, Lord Canning appointed Sir Alexander Cunningham as the
Archaeological Surveyor to the Government of India, and it is to
Cunningham that we owe a huge debt, for he located and rescued a good
part of India’s built heritage. He was responsible for excavations in
Sarnath in 1837 and Sanchi in 1841. In 1871, he was made the first
Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India. After that began
a series of field surveys, which are documented in reports. In the
Report of the Gangetic Provinces 1875-76 and 1877-78, Cunningham writes
that his friend, Raja Ravi Prasada, gave him information of a brick
temple near Kanpur that had superior terracotta work. Between November
1877 and February 1878 he made two visits to Bhitargaon.
Source: The marvel at Bhitargaon by Rana Safvi, The Hindu, Dec 9, 2018
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