Thread by @sheshapatangi1

Shall we learn about a legend who is celebrating his 100th birth anniversary?
For 50 years, from 1943, this man did nothing except bringing back the forgotten past of HINDU CIVILIZATION.
#ProfBBLal is a precious gem of Bharatiya archaeology who rediscovered the Civilizational

Bharat buried under the colonial past.
Perhaps, no other archaeologist can contribute as Prof B B Lal has done for Bharat.
Will explain, read on.
Braj Basi Lal (2 May 1921) was born at Jhansi & obtained Master's in Sanskrit and also Vedas.
After his studies, Lal developed

interest in archaeology and in 1943, became a trainee in excavation under a veteran British archaeologist, Mortimer Wheeler, starting with TAKSHASHILA.
In 1952, out of shoe string budget, B.B. Lal brought New Light on the "dark Age" of Indian History: Recent Excavations at the

Hastinapura Site.
Nehru govt didn't release funds for @ASIGoI as he felt it was not important.
Prof B B Lal traced the towns & cities associated with Mahabharata & came out with irrefutable findings.
When the Harappan cities went for Pakistan after partition, Amlan Ghosh, head

of ASI then, asks his team to excavate Kalibangan.
Prof Lal, his team excavated for 9 yrs & gave the evidence of the earliest (2800 BCE) ploughed agricultural field ever revealed through an excavation and this dated back to PRE - HARAPPAN ERA.
In 1964, Prof B B Lal came with

"Indian Archaeology Since Independence"
In 1975-76, Prof Lal worked on the "Archaeology of Ramayana Sites" which excavated five sites mentioned in the Ramayana - Ayodhya, Bharadwaj Ashram, Nandigram, Chitrakoot and Shringaverapur. In the seven-page preliminary report submitted

to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Lal disclosed the discovery by his team of "pillar bases", immediately south of the Babri mosque structure in Ayodhya.
In response, the then @INCIndia govt of Indira Gandhi stopped the excavations.
Also "Ayodhya Revisited" book by

Kishore Kunal will tell how Indira found it a contentious issue & abandoned excavation.

Prof. B. B. Lal has published over 20 books and over 150 research papers and articles in national and international scientific journals.
In his 2002 book, "The Saraswati Flows On", Lal

criticised the Aryan invasion theory and explains in detail how the historians bent over towards west discredited Hindu Civilization.
Prof B B Lal's book ‘The Rigvedic People: ‘Invaders’?/ ‘Immigrants’?/ or Indigenous?’ proves that the Rigvedic People and the authors of the

Harappan civilisation were the same, they were the two faces of the same coin.
The interview of Prof B B Lal with @nkgrock is certainly a good read.

The interview covers in detail about AIT & debunks the propaganda.
Aryan Invasion – Interview with Prof B.B.Lal
A blog to bring

out forgotten values and wisdom of Hinduism.
jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/.../aryan...
Prof B B Lal, in his 2008 book, "Rāma, His Historicity, Mandir and Setu: Evidence of Literature, Archaeology and Other Sciences", he writes (that):
"Attached to the piers of the Babri Masjid, there were

twelve stone pillars, which carried not only typical Hindu motifs and mouldings, but also figures of Hindu deities. It was self-evident that these pillars were not an integral part of the Masjid, but were foreign to it."
And lets not forget Prof Lal's progeny #KKMuhammed here,

because he was there with his mentor through out.
Prof Lal was awarded with PadmaBhushan in 2000.
(Please note Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar were rewarded and awarded by successive Congress govts for toeing their line).

Last year, GOI launched an e-book titled

“Prof. B.B. Lal: India Rediscovered”.
E-book was launched on the occasion of centenary year of great archaeologist Professor B. B. Lal.

LINKS FOR ABOVE INFORMATION

Archaeologist B.B. Lal talks about his book 'The Saraswati Flows On'
Archaeologist B.B. Lal's latest research

capsizes some dearly held views on the Indus Valley Civilisation and the arrival of what are thought to be the warmongering Aryans. - Issue Date: Nov 12, 2001
The contrarian - Society & The Arts News - Issue Date: Nov 12, 2001 (indiatoday.in).

Archaeologist B.B. Lal

talks about his book 'The Saraswati Flows On'
Archaeologist B.B. Lal's latest research capsizes some dearly held views on the Indus Valley Civilisation and the arrival of what are thought to be the warmongering Aryans. -indiatoday.in/magazine/socie…

The Excavator: BB Lal IN the 1970s, when archaeologist BB Lal and his team started digging near the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, he had little idea of a mass movement brewing over a dispute
In the Name of Rama - Open The Magazine

openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/…

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