01106nam a22001337a 4500 533792 533792 260624b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Dandekar, Ajay 61319 Shereen F Ratnagar (1944–2026) : Uncompromising excavator of historical truth Economic & Political Weekly 61(23), Jun 6, 2026: p.30-31 Shereen F Ratnagar was an extraordinary personality in every sense of the term. Born in Mumbai (amchi Mumbai [“our Mumbai” in Marathi], as she would sometimes fondly say), she, perhaps at a very early age, had decided to pursue the past through the lens of the discipline of archaeology. As we know from her, “something clicked,” when she read Mortimer Wheeler’s Archaeology from the Earth (1954) in Class 9. Fortunately, from then on, given Ratnagar’s persistence, there was no looking back on the decision. Thus, the fields of proto history and Indus Valley culture gained. – Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/23/commentary/shereen-f-ratnagar-1944-2026.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408972 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-24 61(23), Jun 6, 2026: p.30-31 AR139254 2026-06-24 AR