Archaeology, History and Numismatics of South India

Prof. K.V. Raman is one of the senior and distinguished scholars whose valuable contributions to the field of archaeology, history and art and publications such as The Early History of the Madras Region (1957), Some Aspects of Pandyan History (1972), Sri Varadaraja Swami Temple, Kanchi (1975), Sculptural Art of Tirumala Tirupati (1997), Excavations in Uraiyur (ed.) (1988), besides many other books and research papers and endowment lectures. He was formerly Superintending Archaeologist in the Archaeological Survey of India and later became Professor of ancient History and Archaeology, University of Madras from 1976 to 1995. He is the recipient of many honours from India and abroad like the UNESCO Regional Educational Award for 1972, Fullbright Fellow of the Association of Commonwealth Universities in U.K. in 1989. He visited South-East Asian countries from1992-1995 as a member of the Indo-Japanese team headed by Prof. Noboru Karashima to study the historical and cultural relations and was Visiting Professor of ART History in the University of Georgia, Athens, U.S.A. (1998). He was the President of the Indian History Congress in Amritsar (Ancient History section) in 1985; President of the Numismatic Society of India at Shantiniketan in 1989; General President South Indian Numismatic Society in 1996; President of the South Indian History Congress in 1997. He received the Dr. V.S. Wakankar Award for excellence in Field Archaeology for the year 2002 from the Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi.