Nesaratnam Devasahayam

This grant allowed me to start a larger study of prehistoric Indian antiquities in both Indian and UK museums. The report which I submitted to the NTICVA at the end of the grant had chapters on foreign tools in Indian tools in UK museums such as the Institute of Archaeology, the British Museum, the Liverpool Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum., who supplied me with literature and some photographs. My longer term aim is to compilel a total history including the histories of figures such as Robert Bruce Foote, Alexander Rae, Carter, Cardew, Fawcett and Brekkes and their impact on Indian prehistorical research, and collections made by John Evans, John Lubbock, James Wyett, Charles Lyell, Cyril Fox etc.