Swaraj Prakash Gupta

Swaraj Prakash Gupta (SP Gupta; 1931 - 2007 ) was an Indian archaeologist and art historian. He was director of the Allahabad Museum.

Gupta was born in 1931. He was never married.

Gupta was a scholar, writer, and an authority on Indian art history. He wrote articles and books on the subject. Gupta also did some archaeological digs at Harappa sites. At the time of his death he was the chairman of the Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi, and he established the Indian History and Culture Society as a full-fledged research center.

Gupta has worked and lectured in more than 30 countries. He was director of the Allahabad Museum.

He was also the editor of several volumes of Puratattva, the bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society.

He was a distinguished archaeologist and art historian who received multiple gold medals and was awarded the Sir Mortimer Wheeler Prize for Excellence in Archeology. He also received the first Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar National Award in recognition of his dedication and contribution to archaeological research.

The Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies published a commemorative publication in his honor.

Publications

• Tourism, Museums and Monuments (1975)
• The Roots of Indian Art (1980) (French edition: 1990)
• Cultural Tourism in India (SP Gupta and K. Lal), Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archeology and DK Printworld, 2002, ISBN 8124602166 .
• Elements of Indian Art: Including Temple Architecture, Iconography and Iconometry (SP Gupta and SP Asthana) New Delhi: Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archeology, 2002, ISBN 81-246-0213-1 .
• Temples in India (SP Gupta and V. Somasekh) New Delhi: Center for Research and Training in History, Archeology and Paleo-Environment, 2010, ISBN 8124604959 .
• Disposal of the Dead and Physical Types in Ancient India (1971)
• Mahabharata, Myth and Reality - Differing Views (SP Gupta and KS Ramachandran, ed.) Delhi: Agam Prakashan, 1976.
• Archeology of Soviet Central Asia and the Indian Borderlands (2 volumes) (1978)
• Frontiers of the Indus Civilization ( BB Lal and SP Gupta, Eds.). New Delhi: Indian Archaeological Society , 1984.
• The lost Sarasvati and the Indus Civilization , Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan, 1984
• The Indus-Sarasvati Civilization , Delhi: Pratibha Prakashan (1996).
• Dimensions in Indian History and Archeology (SP Gupta and KS Ramachandran, eds.) New Delhi: Indian History and lture Society, 1993.
• SP Gupta. The dawn of civilization, in GC Pande (ed.) History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization ed., DP Chattophadhyaya, vol I Part 1) (New Delhi: Center for Studies in Civilizations, 1999)

Individual evidence

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4. ↑ Misra, VN; Kanungo, AK (2009). Dr. Swarajya Prakash Gupta: an academic and human profile. Pune: Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies. ISBN 9788190833004 .