The Indus-Saraswati Civilization: Origins, Problems and Issues

S.P. Gupta, born on December 22nd, 1930 at Allahabad and educated in the universities of Allahabad, Delhi, Paris and London, with the degrees of M.A., LL.B., Ph.D., D.Litt., Dip. Arch., etc. and several Gold Medals and coveted prizes, such as the Sir Mortimer Wheeler Prize for Excellence in Field Archaeology, is presently the Chairman, Indian Archaeological Society, and Director, CHAP (Centre for Research and Training in History, Archaeology and Palaeo-environment) New Delhi. He is also Visiting Professor in the Faculty of History of Art at National Museum Institute, New Delhi, teaching early Indian, Central Asian and West Asian Art and Archaeology. He is a widely travelled scholar, covering as many as 32 countries in the world.

The author has written half a-dozen books, edited more than a dozen monographs and written around one hundred articles on Indian art and archaeology. Some of his well known books are Disposal of the Dead and Physical Types in Ancient India, Archaeology of Central Asia and the Indian Borderlands (2 vols.), The Roots of Indian Art (along with its French edition), Kushana Art of Sanghol, Masterpieces of the National Museum Collection, History of Tibet (co-authored with K.S. Ramachandran), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization (co-edited with B.B. Lal), India’s Contribution to World Thought and Culture (co-edited with Lokesh Chandra).

Two of the author’s forthcoming books are Flowering of Indian Art and Dictionary of Iconography of Indian Religions (being co-authored with K.S. Ramachandran and Shashi Asthana).

S.P. Gupta retired in 1991 from the post of Director, Allahabad Museum, Allahabad and now lives in Delhi.