UNVEILING INDIA’S GLORIOUS PAST: 75 YEARS OF RESEARCH BY AN ARCHAEOLOGIST

The book deals with some of the most important excavations carried out and researches done by the author during his long academic career. These include excavations at Kalibangan in the Saravati basin, Sringaverapura in U.P. and Sisupalgarh in Odisha. But more important than the foregoing excavations and discoveries is the finding of solutions to certain highly debated issues, such as the historicity of the two Indian epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. After exploring and excavating sites associated Professor Lal has found very compelling evidence which demonstrates that the epics have a basis in history. But the most important achievement of Professor Lal is that relating to the Aryan problem. In unequivocal terms he has shown the ‘Aryan Invasion’ is but a myth ever generated by Western academia. Also, putting together the evidence from archaeology, hydrology, geology, and 14C method of dating the past, and that from the Rigveda itself, Lal has established that the Vedas and Indus-Sarasvati (Harappan) Civilization are but two faces of the same coin and that the Vedic people are indigenous and neither invaders nor immigrants.