Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute

Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute
Abbreviation DACRI
Formation 5 November 2009 (2009-11-05)
Type NGO
Purpose Art, cultural, architectural heritage preservation/restoration
Headquarters Shalivahana Nagar, Hyderabad-36
Director
K Jitendra Babu

The Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute is a non-profit organisation operating in the Deccan region of India, registered under Act 2 of The Indian Trusts Act, 1882. It is dedicated to the conservation and preservation of India’s natural, cultural, living, tangible and intangible heritage.[1]

History

DACRI was founded in 2009 in Hyderabad to promote historical and cultural research among the people of the Deccae. Since 2009, it has pioneered the conservation, protection and promotion of the cultural heritage and monumental grandeur of Deccan region.

In 2012, members of Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute (DACRI) and other archeologists and historians discovered a series of 20 megalithic burial cairn circles dating to 1000 BCE on a hillock in Madugala village in Mahbubnagar district, India. The team also discovered a huge Satavahana site in an extent of 100 acres datable to between the 1st century BCE to 2nd Century CE.[2]

Publications

References

  1. G Venkataramana Rao (19 August 2014). "Call for common Telugu research centre". The Hindu.
  2. "Megalithic burial sites found". The Hindu. 11 February 2012.

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