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Sanjay Kumar Manjul also known as S. K. Manjul is an Indian archaeologist and artist. He is also the additional director general of the Archaeological Survey of India.[1]
He has also served as the director of the central Archaeology Institute in New Delhi.
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[edit]Manjul is a senior archaeologist at the Archaeological Survey of India and is it's additional director general. He has lead the excavation of the Sinauli site as well as excavation of Rakhigarhi from 2020 to 2025.[2]
According to Majul, finds of copper helmet, swords, weapons, and shields point to the warrior-nature of the Sinauli tribe.[3] The excavations also yielded several burials, possible warrior burials, which contained three carts with solid wheels.[citation needed] Manjul interpreted these finds as being chariots, questioning the validity of the widely accepted Indo-Aryan migration theory,[3][a] an interpretation which is rejected by Indologist Asko Parpola[4] and linguist Michael Witzel,[5] due to their solid wheels, which are typical for low-speed carts, whereas chariots have spoked wheels for high speed.[6]
Manjul has been a part of the work by the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts (IGCNA) on the Gupta Empire.[7]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ Bhatnagar et al. (2024) refer to the Indo-Aryan migration theory as "the Aryan invasion theory", an outdated name typically used in a rhetoric and misleading way by proponents of Indigenous Aryanism.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sanjay Kumar Manjul - History Literature Festival" https://historylitfest.com/Speakers/sanjay-kumar-manjul/
- ↑ "Major excavation exercise at Rakhigarhi from tomorrow". The Times of India. 21 January 2026.
- 1 2 Krishan Murari (17 November, 2023), Chariots, warriors, burials — ASI has finally found proof Aryans were no invaders in India, ThePrint.in
- ↑ Parpola 2020.
- ↑ Witzel 2019.
- ↑ Asko Parpola, title?, Oxford University Press, 2020, p.176
- ↑ "Groundbreaking Research Unveiled: 'Treasures of the Gupta Empire' Launched at IGNCA".
Sources
[edit]- Bhatnagar, Manoj Kumar; Manjul, Sanjay Kumar; Parmar, Rina; Kumar, Dharmendra (2024). "Restoration, preservation, and interpretation of the royal chariot from the Sinauli excavation in India: Safeguarding a remarkable discovery" (PDF). Arts & Communication. 2024.2(4):2437: 2437. doi:10.36922/ac.2437.
- Parpola, Asko (2020). "Royal "Chariot" Burials of Sanauli near Delhi and Archaeological Correlates of Prehistoric Indo-Iranian Languages". Studia Orientalia Electronica. 8: 176. doi:10.23993/store.98032.
- Witzel, Michael (2019), "Early ' Aryans' and their neighbors outside and inside India", J Biosci, 44 (3) 58, doi:10.1007/s12038-019-9881-7, PMID 31389347, S2CID 195804491
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