Anant Sadashiv Altekar

Anant Sadashiv Altekar
Born(1898-09-24)24 September 1898
Died25 November 1960(1960-11-25) (aged 62)
Academic background
Alma materDeccan College
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Institutions

Anant Sadashiv Altekar (24 September 1898 – 25 November 1960;[1] Marathi: अनंत सदाशिव अळतेकर) was a historian, archaeologist, and numismatist from Maharashtra, India.[2] He was the Manindra Chandra Nandy's Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India,[3][4] and later the director of the Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute[5] and University Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Patna University,[6] both in Patna, India.

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  3. ^ Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra; Altekar, Anant Sadashiv (2007), The Vakataka-Gupta Age, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, ISBN 978-81-208-0043-4, retrieved 13 September 2009. Reprint of 1946 edition.
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  5. ^ Inden, Ronald B. (2000), Imagining India, Indiana University Press, p. 150, ISBN 978-0-253-21358-7.
  6. ^ "First Lap of the Tour Programme", Report of the Sanskrit Commission 1956–1957, archived from the original on 16 April 2009, retrieved 13 September 2009.

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