Prakashchandra_Pandurang_Shirodkar

Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar

Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar

Indian academic (1941–2021)

Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar, (1941 – 6 May 2021),[1] the eldest son of Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar, was an Indian Indologist, archaeologist, and writer. His father, Pandurang Shirodkar, was a prominent freedom activist of Goa, and also served as the first speaker of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly under the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.[2] Shirodkar had devoted his career to research, and made valuable contributions in archeology.[3] He was the founding editor of two research journals, Colloquium and Purābhileka-Purātatva.[4]

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In 1993, he discovered rock art engravings on lateritic platforms and granite boulders from Usgalimal on the banks of west-flowing river Kushavati, which has shed light on the prehistory of Goa and the existence of humans in Goa during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic.[5][6]

He died on 6 May 2021 due to ill health.[1]

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  1. [1]
    "Archivist Prakashchandra Shirodkar dies in Bengaluru". The Times of India. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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    Gomant Kalika (in Marathi), Margão, Goa: Kalika prakashan vishwast mandal
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    Kerkar, Rajendra P. (20 June 2009). "Earliest stone inscription lies neglected". Times of India, Goa. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
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    "NLA's listing of Purabhileka-Puratatva". trove.nla.gov.au.
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    Chakravarty, Kalyan Kumar; Bednarik, Robert G.; Gāndhī Rāshṭrīya Mānava Saṅgrahālaya, Indirā (1997). Indian Rock Art and Its Global Context. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 34. ISBN 9788120814646.
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    Goa (India : State). Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, Goa University (2001). Goa in the Indian sub-continent: seminar papers. Goa: Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, Govt. of Goa. p. 24.
  7. [7]
    Prakāścandra Pāṇḍuraṅga Śiroḍakara's books on Google books.
  8. [8]
    "Search results for 'au:Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar'". worldcat.org.
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