Background
Dhavalikar was born on 16 May 1930 at Patas, Bombay State (now Maharashtra).
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Dhavalikar was born on 16 May 1930 at Patas, Bombay State (now Maharashtra).
He received Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology in 1964 from University of Poona for work in ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology.
He received Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science in 1952 and Master of Arts in 1958. He served the Archaeological Survey of India as Technical Assistant from 1953 to 1965. He was a Lecturer in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology at the Nagpur University from 1965 to 1967.
He served Deccan College, Pune, as Reader in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology from 1967 to 1982, and as Professor from 1982 to 1990.
He held the positions of Joint-Director (1982–1985) and Director (1985–1990). Along with Z. Doctorate. Ansari, he conducted excavations at Kayatha during 1967-1968.
Dhavalikar dated the discovered site to a period spanning from 2400 Bachelor of Civil Engineering to 2000 Bachelor of Civil Engineering (though Gregory Possehl places it between 2200 Bachelor of Civil Engineering and 2000 Bachelor of Civil Engineering). Dhavalikar was awarded the fellowship of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (2010), and the Ravindranath Tagore Fellowship in Cultural Research by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2010).
