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THE AUTHOR
Dr. T.V.Q. Bastri was bom in 1922, at Agiripali, near Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh He was awarded B.Sc. degree in physics in1945 by the Andhra University and M.A. (1962) Ph.D. (1970) in Archaeology by M.6. University, Baroda.
Initially, he migrated to Sri Lanka, to teach Physics in Hindu College, Karainagar (Jaffna) in 1045. On the question of citizenship he returned to India in 1966 when the construction of the famous Nagarjuna Bagar Dam had just started, in Andhra Pradesh
Consequent on the impending submersion of Nagarjunakonda Vatey by damming the waters of the river Krishna, Archaelogical Survey of India had taken up the excavation Project to salvage the archaelogical remains and topreserve them. This had given a chance for Dr. Bastri to try his fuck in Archaeology
He evinced keen interest in field studies and soon he became a good excavator. When the Excavation Project was wound up in 1960, he was absorbed in the Archaelogical Survey of India, which he served for 25 years in various capacities at Baroda, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Goa and finally back at Nagarjunkonda, till 1000.
