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Projects 1969 - 1970

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Shri M.D. Khare studied temples of pre-Gupta style in central India. He completed the second and third chapters of monographs on the pre-Gupta temples in India. The second chapter discusses Prehistoric religion and deals exhaustively with the evidence of Proto historic temples. The third chapter describes the Pre Gupta temples at Besnagar, Nagari, Bairat, Mathura, Srawasti, Kaushambi, Nagarjunkonda and Taxila dating from.400 B.C. to 300 AD.

(Indian Archaeology - A Review, 1969-70)

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“The Department wanted to explore, document, analyze and preserve unknown or known Temples of the country which were valued for their religious, social or cultural importance. The Temple Survey Project has the mandate to survey, recognize, document & analyze Temples through out the country by systematic studies and analysis. ”