Thread by @sheshapatangi1

For 50 years, from 1943, this man did nothing except bring 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.
Please 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 Archaeological Survey of India

as he felt it was NOT IMPORTANT.
But, it didn’t stop BB Lal in pursuing and bringing back the Glory of Bharath.
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, asked 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 ASI, Lal disclosed the discovery by his team of "pillar bases", immediately south of the Babri mosque structure in Ayodhya.

In response, the then Indira Gandhi Govt 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.

He had already discredited AIT in his 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.

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 and Padmavibhushan in 2021.
(Please note Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar were rewarded and awarded by successive Congress govts for toeing their line).
2 years back,

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.

For more...
The contrarian - Society & The Arts News - Issue Date: Nov 12, 2001 (indiatoday.in)

Prof Lal is a precious gem of Indian archaeology who rediscovered the Civilizational Bharath and we are lucky to have such a great personality.

Regarding the excavation of evidence related to Ram Mandir at Ayodhya Professor Lal once said that,

“In my autobiography, I had written that through god’s grace, I had come to realise that I was only a typist and the dictation giver was someone else”.

#ProfBBLal

#VANDEMATARAM