Rakesh Tewari

Dr. Rakesh Tewari (b. 1953, Sitapur, U.P.) is the Director of the U.P. State Archaeology Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh since 1989. He has been directing and conducting archaeological explorations and excavations for more than three decades in India. He has visited a number of ancient sites and monuments in Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Mauritius, Australia, UK and Italy. Apart from carrying out significant excavations in the central Ganga Valley, he has also documented a number of ancient sites, temples, sculptures and their remains in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Tewari is the founder editor of Pragdhara - a leading research journal on archaeology and allied subjects. He has to his credit many published reports, monographs, edited volumes and research papers, reviews and notes. In collaboration with Cambridge University researchers, he has worked on the ancient Deccan routes and archaeological settlements in the Ganga Plain. Also, he is collaborating in an ongoing UKIERI project - ?From the collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise of great Indian Early Historic cities?.