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the development of South Asian studies in the UK, the
Symposium brings together established lecturers, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students working in South Asian Archaeology, History and the History of Art and Architecture, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research. Amongst other collections, the Ancient India and Iran Trust also houses the Allchin archive, comprising the photographic slide collection of both Allchins and the meticulous work diaries which Raymond kept during each of his field seasons, offering great potential to scholars of South Asian archaeology.
502:. Raymond invited his former undergraduate and new research student, Robin Coningham, to accept the role of field director, and the results from excavations between 1989 and 1993, refuted many long held assumptions. Excavating a ten-metre deep cultural sequence stretching from the ninth century BC to the tenth century AD. it provided evidence of urbanism in the fourth century BC but also confirmed Deraniyagala's early claim of evidence of the earliest
324:. He again dated this site-type to the Neolithic of South India and to the fourth millennium BC on account of the associated polished stone axes. He interpreted the stockades at Utnur as annual cattle camps, whose accumulations of dung were burnt at the end of each grazing season, thus creating a regular sequence of ash and cinder. He later developed these ideas into a narrative which bound together
357:, Raymond and Bridget supervised the processing of antiquities and pottery drawing during the first season. Although only on site for one season, Raymond later produced research on artefacts from Shaikhan Dheri. He suggested that a number of small iron plates pierced with small holes around their edges, some of which had rusted together, formed part of the scale armour from the cap of a
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1980 'Archaeological and language evidence for the movement of Indo-Aryan speaking peoples into South Asia', J. K.R. Cama
Oriental Institute, Bombay, 48, 68β102; also published in 1981, in M.S. Asimov, B.A. Litvinsky, L.I. Miroshnikov and D.S. Rayevsky, eds, Ethnic Problems of the history of Central
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Gandhara, and that the urban sequences of the region stretched back before Persian contact, possibly back to the late Chalcolithic. Though Raymond never excavated to prove such assertions, he was pivotal to negotiating the return of an archaeological team to Charsadda after a gap of thirty years.
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1999 'Preface', in R.A.E. Coningham, ed. Anuradhapura: The
BritishβSri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salagha Watta 2. Volume 1: The Site. Oxford: Archaeopress for the Society for South Asian Studies (The British Academy): (BAR international series 824; Society for South Asian Studies monograph
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Allchins were also pivotal in promoting and facilitating the study of South Asian archaeology in Europe as well as within the Subcontinent. In the 1970s, aware of the fragmented nature of South Asian scholarship across Europe and seeking to broaden the capacity that was at the time possible and
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British β Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta: Volume 1 The Site. Oxford: Archaeopress for the Society for South Asian Studies Monograph Series; Coningham, R.A.E. (2006). Anuradhapura: The British β Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura
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1993 'The urban position of Taxila and its place in
Northwest India-Pakistan', in H. Spodek. and D. M. Srinivasan, eds. Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art. Studies in the History of Art, 31. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Symposium Papers
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The legacy of the
Allchins, and the Trust that they helped found, continues to support the promotion of South Asian scholarship. In December 2013, the first Annual Allchin Symposium, named in their honour, was held at the Trust. Established to commemorate their work and outstanding contribution to
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February morning in 1980, not far from the Taxila Museum guesthouse, they discovered numerous sherds of a distinctive, highly burnished red ware covering an area of 13 hectares along the foot of the spur. Raymond recognised that these sherds belonged to the category of Burnished Red Ware
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Cambridge in 1978. The Trust aimed to support and provide a focal point where scholars and members of the public with interests in the cultures of these geographic regions could meet and use its unique library, substantially composed of the collections of its founders. The Trust also organised
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In 1951, Bridget met fellow PhD student Raymond Allchin at the Institute of Archaeology and they married in March of that year. Travelling to India for the first time with Raymond in 1951, Bridget steadily but firmly established herself as the most prominent South Asian Prehistorian in the UK. A
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As well as undertaking almost forty years of field investigations, Raymond was also motivated by the need to record and protect heritage in the face of the pressures of increasing population and development in South Asia. Raymond was also one of the pioneers for the protection of heritage sites
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1997 South Asian archaeology, 1971β1991 : index of the proceedings of the biennal conferences of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists (formerly, Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe), (compiler). Naples: Indices, Istituto Universitario Orientale.
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1985 'The interpretation of a seal from Chanhu-daro and its significance for the religion of the Indus Civilization, South Asian Archaeology 1983, in J. Schotsmans, J. and M. Taddei, M., eds. Naples, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Series Minor 23:
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2003 A Source-book of Indian Archaeology (with D.K. Chakrabarti), New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, vol. 3: Prehistoric Roots of Religious Beliefs, Human Remains, The First Steps in Historical Archaeology: Sculpture, Architecture, Coins and Inscriptions. pp
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2006 'Inscriptions and graffiti' in R.A.E. Coningham, ed. Anuradhapura: The British β Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta: Volume 2 The Artefacts. Oxford: Archaeopress for the Society for South Asian Studies (The British Academy):
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1995 Excavations at Malvan; report of the collaboration of the Archaeological Survey of India and Cambridge University in 1970, on the Gujarat Plain (with J. P. Joshi) New Delhi, Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India 92, pp vii,
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and contemporary pastoral practice with the archaeological findings, suggesting that the regular burning of the stockades was not a calamity or the result of raiding but part of an annual fire rite, perhaps surviving today as
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and Rajput texts he stated that "Considering the importance of alcohol for man-kind . . . it is surprising that comparatively little is known of its early history,'12 and concluding that 'it may well be that the art of
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Allchin, F.R. (1995) Excavations at Malvan: Report of the collaboration of the Archaeological Survey of India and Cambridge University in 1970, on the Gujarat plan (Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India).
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and historians of art and architecture to exchange information from current research. Forming the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, the Allchins organised the first meeting, which was held at
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1992 Coningham R.A.E. & Allchin F.R. 'Anuradhapura Citadel Archaeological Project: Preliminary Results of the Third Season of Sri Lankan β British Excavations at Salgaha Watta'. South Asian Studies 8:
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1991 Coningham R.A.E. & Allchin F.R. 'Anuradhapura Citadel Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report of the Second Season of Sri Lankan β British Excavations at Salgha Watta'. South Asian Studies 7:
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1991 Shahr-i Zohak and the History of the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan, with P.H.B. Baker, ed. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports Number 570, Ancient India and Iran Trust Series No. 1: pp. 215
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1984 'The northern limits of the Harappan culture zone in the light of recent observations', in B.B. Lal and S.P. Gupta, eds, Frontiers of the Indus Civilization, New Delhi, Books and Books, 51β4.
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1963 'Cattle and economy in the Neolithic of South India', in A.E. Mourant and F.E. Zeuner, eds, Man and Cattle, London 149β155. 1963 'The cultural tradition of India', The Listener, March, 25β39.
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pioneering female field-archaeologist in South Asia at a time when there were none, Bridget's research interests and publications were to stretch across South Asia from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka.
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In reaction to the lack of institutions, teaching posts or funds devoted to the promotion of popular or scholarly interest in South and Central Asia, the Allchins, along with Professor Sir
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1977 'Recommendations concerning moveable cultural property', in E.F. Sekler, ed., Masterplan for the Conservation of the Cultural Heritage in the Kathmandu Valley, UNESCO, Paris, 134β47.
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Coningham, R.A.E. 2013. Review of R. Allchin & B. Allchin, From the Oxus to Mysore in 1951: The Start of a Great Partnership in Indian Scholarship. South Asian Studies 29(2): 242β243
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1974 'Pottery from graves in the Perumal hills near Kodaikanal', in A.K. Ghosh, ed., Perspectives in Palaeoanthropology (Dharani Sen volume), Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 299β308.
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1966 'Pottery and head-rests from Narasipur Sangam', in D. Sen and A.K. Ghosh, eds, Studies in Prehistory, Robert Bruce Foote Memorial Volume, Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 58β63.
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1980 'A note on the "Asokan" stupas of Patan', in A.L. Dallapiccola, ed., The Stupa, its Religious, Historical and Architectural Significance, Wiesbaden, Frantz Steiner Verlag, 147β56.
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1978 'Surface collections from Pushkar', in B. Allchin, A.S. Goudie and K. Hegde, eds, The Prehistory and Palaeogeography of the Great Indian Desert, New York, Academic Press, 331-1+9.
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within their cultural landscape, as illustrated by his work for the UN with the Japanese Planner and Architect, K. Matsushita, in 1969. Raymond and Matsushita had been contracted by
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1979 'Stamped Tangas and condensers: evidence of distillation at Shaikhan Dheri', in M. Taddei, ed., South Asian Archaeology, 1977, Naples, Istituto Universitario Orientale, 755-97.
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1977 'Recommendations concerning archaeological sites', in E.F. Sekler, ed., Masterplan for the Conservation of the Cultural Heritage in the Kathmandu Valley, UNESCO, Paris, 147β54.
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1981 'Preliminary report on the excavations at Tarakai Qila (1978β79)β (with J.R. Knox), in H. Hartel, ed., South Asian Archaeology, 1979, Berlin, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 245β50.
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1977 'A modern Indian potter's technique', in D. Chattopadhyaya, ed., History and Society: Essays in honour of Professor Niharanjan Ray, Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1β13.
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in 1967 focused on investigating the presence or absence of sites associated with the Indus civilisation in western India, following this in 1968 with excavations at the site of
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1996 Coningham R.A.E., Allchin F.R., Batt C.M. & Lucy D. Passage to India? Anuradhapura and the Early Use of the Brahmi Script. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 6(1): 73β97.
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1986 'Drumbeats from the past', Pupul Jayakar Felicitation Volume, Dimensions of Indian Art βPupul Jayakar Seventy, in L. Candra and J. Jain, eds., Delhi, Agam Kala Prakashan,
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1969 'Early cultivated plants in India and Pakistan', in P.J. Ucko and G.W. Dimbleby, eds, The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, London, Duckworth, 323β29.
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1969 'Early domestic animals in India and Pakistan', in P.J. Ucko and G.W. Dimbleby, eds, The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, London, Duckworth, 317β22.
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Allchin, F. Raymond, and Bridget Allchin (2012). From the Oxus to Mysore in 1951: The start of a great partnership in Indian Archaeology. Kilkerran: Hardinge Simpole, pp. 35
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Allchin, F. Raymond, and Bridget Allchin (2012). From the Oxus to Mysore in 1951: The start of a great partnership in Indian Archaeology. Kilkerran: Hardinge Simpole, pp. 90
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1981 'Antiquity of gold mining in the Gadag region', in M.S. Nagaraja Rao, ed., Madhu, Recent Researches in Indian Archaeology and History, Delhi, Agam Kala Prakashan, 81β3.
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1981 'Preliminary report on the excavations at Lewan (1977β78)β (with J.R. Knox), in H. Hartel, ed., South Asian Archaeology, 1979, Berlin, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 241-44.
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1981 'Preliminary report on the Bannu Basin Project (1977β79) β Introduction', in H. HΓ€rtel (ed.), South Asian Archaeology, 1979, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 217β218.
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funds to facilitate Indian and Pakistani visiting fellowships, which included highly distinguished scholars including Dilip Chakrabari, Ravi Korisettar, K. Krishnan,
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1968 'Explorations in districts Baroda, Broach and Surat' (with J.P. Joshi), Indian Archaeology 1967β68 β a review, New Delhi, Archaeological Survey of India, 9β13.
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1961 'Ideas of history in Indian archaeological writing', in C. Philips, ed., Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 241β259.
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1981 'The legacy of the Indus Civilisation', in Gregory L. Possehl, ed., Harappan Civilization, A Contemporary PerspectiveΒΈ New Delhi, Oxford & IBH, 325β33.
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in 1963 and promoted to a Readership in Indian Studies in 1972. Away from Cambridge, his achievements were also recognised through being made a Fellow of the
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and linguistics, the Allchins made their work and that of others accessible through a series of sole, joint and edited publications. Seminal works include
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Coningham, R.A.E. (2012). Frank Raymond Allchin (1923β2010). In Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Oxford University Press. IX: 22;
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Coningham, R.A.E. (2012). Frank Raymond Allchin (1923β2010). In Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Oxford University Press. IX: 9β10
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1954 Development of Early Cultures in the Raichur District of Hyderabad. PhD Dissertation, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.
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cities or those of the Early Historic period in the north of the Subcontinent. After undertaking a survey of sites within the District, he selected the
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Coningham, R.A.E. (2012). Frank Raymond Allchin (1923β2010). In Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Oxford University Press. IX: 25
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Coningham, R.A.E. (2012). Frank Raymond Allchin (1923β2010). In Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Oxford University Press. IX: 14
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1959 'Upon the contextual significance of certain groups of ancient Indian signs', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 22, 548β555.
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Coningham, R.A.E. (2012). Frank Raymond Allchin (1923β2010). In Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Oxford University Press. IX: 7
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Coningham, R.A.E. (2012). Frank Raymond Allchin (1923β2010). In Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Oxford University Press. IX: 6
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1999 Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments (with Richard Salomon and Mark Barnard), London, British Library.
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1997 A Source-book of Indian Archaeology (with D.K. Chakrabarti), New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, Vol. 2: Settlements, Technology and Trade, pp 708.
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of Peshawar University, excavations between 1993 and 1997 confirmed Raymond's hypothesis of a much earlier date for initial settlement at c.1300 BC.
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1982 Indian Monuments through British Eyes, 1780β1980: Handlist of the exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, pp 1β18.
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1970 'Malvan β further light on the southern extension of the Indus Civilisation' (with J.P. Joshi), Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyΒΈ 1, 20β28.
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Allchin, Bridget, and F. Raymond Allchin 1968. The Birth of Indian Civilization: India and Pakistan Before 500 B.C. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
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Allchin, Bridget, and F. Raymond Allchin 1997. Origins of a Civilization: The Prehistory and Early Archaeology of South Asia. New Delhi: Viking.
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1981 'Antecedents of the Indus Civilization (10th Annual Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture)β, Bulletin of the British Academy, 66, 135β60.
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R. A. E. Coningham et al. (1996) Passage to India? Anuradhapura and the early use of Brahmi script. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 6: 73β97.
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1977 'Religious symbols and Indian thought', in H.R.E. Davidson, ed., Symbols of Power, Cambridge, The Folklore Society Mistletoe Series, 1β35.
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1995 The archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The emergence of cities and states, (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, xvii-317.
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1973 'Problems and perspectives in South Asian archaeology', in N. Hammond, ed., South Asian Archaeology, 1971, Park Ridge, Noyes Press, 1β11.
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1970 'A pottery group from Ayun, Chitral' (in honour of Sir Harold Bailey), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 33, 1β4.
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1978 'Conclusion' (with N. Hammond), in F.R. Allchin and N. Hammond, eds, The Archaeology of Afghanistan, New York, Academic Press, 405β14.
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1966 Tulsi Das, The petition to Ram, translation of Vinayapatrika with introduction, notes and glossary, London, Allen & Unwin, pp 365.
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Coningham R.A.E. & Ali I. (2007). Charsadda: The British β Pakistani Excavations at the Bala Hisar of Charsadda. Oxford: Archaeopress.
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1978 'Introduction' (with N. Hammond), in F.R. Allchin and N. Hammond, eds, The Archaeology of Afghanistan, New York, Academic Press, 1β9.
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available within Britain, the Allchins, together with colleagues from Europe, created a biannual platform for South Asian archaeologists,
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under the supervision of Professor K. de B. Codrington at the same institution. On completing his PhD, Raymond was appointed Lecturer in
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1973 'An inscribed reliquary from Shaikhan Dheri, in H.H. Hartel and V. Moeller, eds, Indologen-Tagung, 1971, Wiesbaden, Steiner, 265β72.
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1971 'The attaining of the void β a review of some recent contributions in English to Virasaiva studies', Religious Studies, 7, 339β59.
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1961 'The antiquity and methods of gold mining in ancient India', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 5, 195β211.
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Allchin, Bridget, and F. Raymond Allchin 1982. The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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challenged received wisdom at the time that suggested that such cities had been founded no earlier than the sixth century BC as the
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1957 'The Neolithic stone industry of North Karnataka region', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 19, 321β335.
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Allchin, F.R. (1963) Neolithic Cattle Keepers of South India: A study of Deccan ashmounds, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
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2000 The Ancient India and Iran Trust Library. Second, revised edition. Cambridge : Ancient India & Iran Trust Library.
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1972 'Malvan' (with J.P. Joshi), in S.B. Deo, ed., Archaeological Congress and Seminar Papers, Nagpur, Nagpur University, 36β42.
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1968 'The social thought of Swami Vivekananda', Swami Vivekannanda in East and West, London, Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre, 84β105.
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1962 'The Neolithic stone industry of the Santal Parganas', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 25, 306β330.
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1972 'A cruciform reliquary from Shaikhan Dheri, Charsada', in P. Pal, ed., Aspects of Indian Art, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 15β26.
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1963 Neolithic Cattle Keepers of South India: A study of Deccan ashmounds, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp xvi, 189.
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Recognition of Raymond's contribution to South Asian archaeology was rewarded in Cambridge when he was appointed a Fellow of
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1969 Cultural Tourism in India: its scope and development with special reference to the monumental heritage, UNESCO, pp104.
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1959 'Poor men's thalis, a Deccan potter's technique', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 22, 250β257.
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1976 'The mysterious Path of Love in Tulsi Das', Vedanta for East and West, London, Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre, 152, 3β11.
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1968 'Archaeology and the date of Kaniska', in A.L. Basham, ed., Papers on the Date of Kaniska, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 4β34.
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1960 Piklihal Excavations, Andhra Pradesh Archaeological Series, 1, Hyderabad, Government of Andhra Pradesh, pp xvii, 154.
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anywhere in South Asia, demonstrating its use to facilitate trade before being later adopted as an imperial tool by the
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Allchin, F.R. (1970) A piece of scale armour from Shaihkan dheri, Charsada. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2: 113
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1986 'Radiocarbon dating of some early sites in North West Pakistan' (with K.D. Thomas), South Asian Studies, 2: 37β44.
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1992 'An Indus ram: a hitherto unrecorded stone sculpture from the Indus Civilization'. South Asian Studies 8: 53β4.
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1980 'Textile impressions from the South Indian Iron Age', P.E.P. Deraniyagala Commemoration Volume, Sri Lanka, 64β7.
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1979 A Source-book of Indian Archaeology (with D.K. Chakrabarti), New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, Vol. 1, pp x, 354.
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Allchin, Raymond (1954) The Development of Early Culture in Raichur District of Hyderabad in the Deccan. PhD Thesis
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1978 The Archaeology of Afghanistan (with N. Hammond, ed. and contributor), London, Academic Press, pp xxiii, 451.
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1966 'The place of Tulsi Das in North Indian devotional tradition', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 123β140.
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1961 Utnur Excavations, Andhra Pradesh Archaeological Series 5, Hyderabad, Government of Andhra Pradesh, pp 75.
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and ash and discovered that the mounds were contained by series of post-holes, demarking superimposed circular
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1985 'Guide to the Asokan inscriptions' (with K.R. Norman), in B. Allchin, ed., South Asian Studies, 1, 43β50.
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1972 'A piece of scale armour from Shaikhan Dheri, Charsada', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2, 113β20.
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1964 'An inscribed weight from Mathura', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 7, 201β205.
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1989 'Threats to the conservation of monuments in urban and rural settings', in B. Allchin, F.R. Allchin and
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1974 'The emergence of civilisation in North India', Encyclopædia Britannica. London, Encyclopædia Britannica
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significant contribution to the study of the ancient history of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka
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1964 Tulsi Das, Kavitavali, translated with introduction (UNESCO), London, Allen & Unwin, pp 229.
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1978 'Monument conservation and policy in India', Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 126, 746β65.
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1957 'Sanskrit eduka β Pali eduka', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 20, 1β4.
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1955 'Rock paintings and engravings in Raichur, Hyderabad', (with D.H. Gordon), Man, 55, 114, 97β99.
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with Professor F. A. Durrani and Professor Farid Khan of Peshawar University, Mr Robert Knox of the
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of Afghanistan in 1951. Here, under the direction of Codrington, he studied the standing remains of
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for excavation, one of the best-preserved ash mounds. In a single season, he cut through metres of
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1990 'Patterns of city formation in Early Historic South Asia'. South Asian Studies 6: 163β74.
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1975 'The reconciliation of jnana and bhakti in Ramcaritamanasa', Religious Studies, 12, 81β91.
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Like Raymond, Bridget's family also had a long heritage of medical practitioners, including Dr
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for further investigation. Excavating in 1952, and again in 1957, with the assistance of the
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on 9 July 1923, son of Frank Macdonald Allchin, a doctor, and Louise Maude. His brother was
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archaeology. Producing a large body of scholarship ranging from archaeological excavations,
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following a joint invitation from Dr Roland Silva, director general of archaeology, and Dr
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1989 'City and State Formation in Early Historic South Asia', South Asian Studies 5: 1β16.
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1981 'Antiquity and continuity', in P. Jayakar et al., eds, The Indian Experience, 125β29.
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1962 'A Neolithic pot from the Billa Surgam caves, Andhra Pradesh, Antiquity, 36, 302β303.
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1990 'The end of the Harappan Urban Phase and its aftermath'. Ancient Ceylon 10: 25β40.
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1990 'Indo-Aryan and Aryan: language, culture and ethnicity'. Ancient Ceylon 10:13β23.
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1976 Preface for reprint of Annual Reports of the Archaeological Survey of Mysore, 1β3.
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1989 'The aims of the Seminar', introductory remarks, in B. Allchin, F.R. Allchin and
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1998 'The interface of archaeology and history'. Man and Environment 23, (1): 19β36.
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throughout his career and his first introduction to South Asian fieldwork was in the
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1953 'A flake tool from the Oxus', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 19, 227.
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