Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar

Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar (16 May 1930 – 27 March 2018) was an Indian historian and archaeologist. Quotes The theory of large-scale invasion by Aryans is now discounted as there is no evidence to support it. M. K. Dhavalikar, Indian Protohistory (New Delhi: Books & Books, 1997), p. 299. quoted in Danino, M. (2009). A BRIEF NOTE ON THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY. PRAGATI| April-June 2009 The most interesting is the discovery of bones of horse from the Kayatha levels and a terracotta figurine of a mare. It is the domesticate species (Equus caballus), which takes back the antiquity of the steed in India to the latter half of the third millennium BC. The presence of horse at Kayatha in all the chalcolithic levels assumes great significance in the light of the controversy about the horse. M. K. Dhavalikar, Indian Protohistory (New Delhi: Books & Books, 1997), p. 115. quoted in The Horse and the Aryan Debate by Michel Danino (Published in the Journal of Indian History and Culture of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research, Chennai, September 2006, No.13, pp. 33-59.) External links Category:1930 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Historians from India Category:Archaeologists from India