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Professor of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology and former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Panjab University, Chandigarh is a well known Indologist. He has distinguished himself as a meticulous researcher in various branches of the discipline. He has to his credit more than one hundred research papers and book reviews published in reputed journals in India and abroad. Besides his magnum opus, The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas, he has authored/edited several other books on various aspects of Indological studies such as In Search of Vedic-Harappan Relationship, Worling Women in Ancient India, Buddhist Art and Thought, Sarupa Saurabham, Ratna Chandrika, etc. He is the founder Editor of the Research Bulletin of the VVRI. A life-member of several academic bodies, besides being on the executive boards of some of them, he has participated in and chaired numerous seminars and conferences. He has been invited to deliver special lectures by several institutions in India and abroad and is a recipient of many fellowships and awards.