Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar
{{Short description|Indian academic (1941–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar
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| birth_date = 1941
| birth_place = Goa, Portuguese India
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|5|6|1941}}
| death_place = Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
| nationality = Indian
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| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|archaeologist|historian}}
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| father = Pandurang Shirodkar
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Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar (1941 – 6 May 2021){{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/archivist-prakashchandra-shirodkar-dies-in-bengaluru/articleshow/82445683.cms|title=Archivist Prakashchandra Shirodkar dies in Bengaluru|work=The Times of India|date=6 May 2021|access-date=6 May 2021}} was an Indian indologist, archaeologist, and writer. He had devoted his career to research, and made contributions in archaeology.{{cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Goa/Earliest-stone-inscription-lies-neglected/articleshow/4678096.cms |title=Earliest stone inscription lies neglected |last=Kerkar |first=Rajendra P. |date=20 June 2009 |publisher=Times of India, Goa |accessdate=20 August 2009 }} He was the founding editor of two research journals, Colloquium and Purābhileka-Purātatva.{{Cite web |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32733701?q=%22+Goa%2C+Daman+and+Diu+%28India%29+History.%22&c=article |title=NLA's listing of Purabhileka-Puratatva |publisher=trove.nla.gov.au }}
Personal life
He was the eldest son of Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar, who was a freedom activist of Goa, and also served as the first speaker of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly under the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.{{Citation |title=Gomant Kalika |publisher=Kalika prakashan vishwast mandal |location=Margão, Goa |issue=May 2000 |language=Marathi }}
Career
In 1993, Shirodkar discovered rock art engravings on lateritic platforms and granite boulders from Usgalimal on the banks of west-flowing river Kushavati, which has shed light on the prehistory of Goa and the existence of humans in Goa during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic.{{cite book |first1=Kalyan Kumar |last1=Chakravarty |first2=Robert G. |last2=Bednarik |first3=Indirā |last3=Gāndhī Rāshṭrīya Mānava Saṅgrahālaya |title=Indian Rock Art and Its Global Context |year=1997 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=9788120814646 |page=34 }}{{cite book |author=Goa (India : State). Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, Goa University |title=Goa in the Indian sub-continent: seminar papers |year=2001 |publisher=Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, Govt. of Goa |location=Goa |page=24 }}
Death
Bibliography
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! Title ! Location ! Publisher |
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| 1961
| Goa's Freedom Struggle: Selected Writings of T. B. Cunha | Goa | T. B. Cunha Memorial Committee |
| 1979
| Kolhāpūra-portugeja saṃbaṃdha: Govā purābhilekha saṃgrahālayāṃtūna nivaḍalele kāgada | Kolhāpūra | Yaśavaṃtarava Saṃ. Taste |
| 1988
| Goa: Cultural Trends: Seminar Papers | Goa, Daman and Diu (India) | Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum, Government of Goa |
| 1988
| Goa's Struggle for Freedom | India | Ajanta Publications |
| 1989
| Āṭhavaṇī mājhyā kārāvāsācyā kāḷyā-niḷyā pānyācyā | Paṇājī | Gomantaka Marāṭhī Akādamī |
| 1990
| Who's Who of Freedom Fighters, Goa, Daman, and Diu, Volume 2 | Goa, Daman and Diu (India) | Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa |
| 1991
| Trial of T.B. Cunha | Goa | Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa |
| 1992
| Goa's External Relations: Seminar Papers | Goa | Directorate of Archives, Archaeology, and Museum, Goa University |
| 1992
| Trial of Laxmikant Venkatesh Prabhu Bhembre | Panaji, Goa | Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa |
| 1993
| Trial of Rama Krishna Hegde | Goa | Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa |
| 1993
| Source Material for the History of the Freedom Movement of Goa: Collected from Goa Archives, Volume 3 | Goa | Goa Gazetteer Dept., Goa Archives |
| 1993
| People of India: Goa | India | Anthropological Survey of India |
| 1996
| Trial of P.K. Kakodkar: Source Material for the History of The Freedom Movement of Goa (Collected from Goa Archives), Volume 5 | Goa | Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa |
| 1997
| Portuguese Palaeography | Goa, India | Mrs. Sulabha P. Shirodka |
| 1998
| Researches in Indo-Portuguese history, Volumes 1 and 2 | Jaipur | Publication Scheme |
| 1999
| Trial of the Four: Pandurang P. Shirodkar, Dr. Vinayak N. Mayenkar, Guilherme de Souza Ticló, Nilkanth M. Karapurkar'' | Goa | Goa Gazetteer Dept., Goa Archives |
| 2001
| Gomantakācī Marāṭhī asmitā | Paṇajī | Gomantaka Marāṭhī Akādamī |
| 2005
| Honorable Jagannath Shankarshet | Goa | Pradnya-Darshan Prakashan |
| 2012
|World War II: Blazing Midnight: German Remote Control at Marmagoa Silenced | Bardez, Goa | Pradnya-Darshan Prakashan |
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