A.C.L. Carlleyle

The Archaeological Survey of India was revived as a distinct department of the government and Sir Alexander Cunningham was appointed as Director General who assumed his charge in February 1871.

Cunningham was given two assistants J.D. Beglar and Carlleyle who were later joined by H.B.W. Garrik. Carlleyle handled the Agra region for the Report of 1871-72 whereas Beglar was In-charge of Delhi.

In 1867-68, Carlleyle discovered paintings on the walls and ceilings of rock shelters in Sohagighat, district Mirzapur. He was also the first to claim a Stone Age antiquity for these. Carlleyle also made many other important contributions to archeology in India. [Page 396, God-apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia, By Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Published 2000, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0472110136] [Page 27, Buddhism in the History of Indian Ideas, By Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, Published 1993, Manohar Publishers & Distributors, ISBN 8173040176]

ee also

* Ror community

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