The essays included in these two volumes have a twofold aim: a) to bring centre stage the benefits accruing from historiographical research in heritage studies in India with special reference to deep or preliterate past; and b) to strengthen their conceptual and methodological foundations. The essays in Volume 1 are entirely devoted to the former task. These seek to assess and foreground the pioneering contributions made to ancient India studies by long or recently deceased Indian and European scholars. They include Captain Thomas John Newbold, Bruce Foote, Rajendralala Mitra and Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Sir R.G. Bhandarkar, Lokamanya Tilak, Irawati Karve, H.D. Sankalia and three others closely associated with the Deccan College in Pune. The essays in Volume 2 deal with certain specific themes, methods and aims and goals of heritage research. These themes cover periodization and terminology, social and economic perspectives, the method of inquiry, archaeology as anthropological history, and relevance of deep past. The larger intent of these volumes is to revitalize studies of ancient India and its heritage by indicating potential areas for further research and suggesting new avenues and approaches for this purpose. Contents: Volume 1 Personalities Preface List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Contributions of Geologists towards the Development of Prehistoric Studies in Southern India, with Special Reference to Captain Thomas John Newbold 2. On the Earliest Use of Photography as a Documentation Procedure in Indian Ethnology 3. Robert Bruce Foote and the Birth of Indian Prehistory 4. Learning from the Indological Researches of Our Early Native Masters 5. Resurrecting Sir Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar’s Indological Thought and Method 6. Post-Processualism in Pre-Independence Antiquarian Studies in India? Apropos Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s Contributions 7. Lokamanya Tilak, Prehistory and the Scientific Method 8. Mahatma Gandhi on the Past: Its Relevance for the Present and Future 9. Irawati Karve: A Twentieth-Century Public Intellectual Extraordinary 10. Homage to the Sankalias 11. M.K. Dhavalikar and Revitalization of Indian Archaeology 12. V.N. Misra: Anthropological Archaeologist Exemplary 13. M.L.K. Murty and His Place in Indian Prehistory Index About the Author: K. Paddayya is Emeritus Professor and former Director of Deccan College (Deemed University) in Pune. He is Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and received Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2012.