Awards

Dr. V.S. Wakankar Award

The Madhya Pradesh University Grant Commission vide their letter No. 2081/C, dated 25.12.1991 sanctioned a sum of Rs. 15,00,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Lakhs only) to the Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi for using the amount as ‘Corpus Money’ for the Award in the memory of well known Field Archaeologist from Madhya Pradesh, Late Padmashree Dr. V.S. Wakankar. Out of the interest of this “Corpus” The Indian Archaeological Society has instituted the Wakankar Award of Rs. 21,000/- (Twenty-one Thousands only) every alternative year to honour an outstanding field archaeologist.

The following is the order of Awards given so far to various scholars. The award is given at the time of the Annual Conference of the Society.

Year	Name of Awardee	Place
1992	Prof. B.B. Lal	Bhopal
1994	Prof. B.P. Sinha	New Delhi
1996	Dr. Y.D. Sharma	New Delhi
1998	Dr. K.M. Srivastava	Allahabad
2000	Shri M.N. Deshpande	New Delhi
2002	Prof. K.V. Raman	Cochin
2004	Prof. V.N. Misra	Lucknow
2006	Shri R.C. Agrawala	New Delhi
2008	Prof. V.D. Misra	New Delhi
2010	Prof. V.H. Sonawane	New Delhi
2012 & 14	-	-
2016	Prof. Vibha Tripathi	Ranchi

A.K. Narain Award

The A.K. Narain Award for the study of Cultures and Civilisations other than India was instituted by an endowment of Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousands only) made by Mrs. Usha Narain. The award is aimed for the best (as judged by the award committee) published work or unpublished Doctoral Thesis (by any scholar not older than 40 years) on any subject pertaining to Archaeology, Prehistory and Quaternary Studies and History and Culture of Countries other than India. However, as per clause eleven of the agreement, in absence of any outstanding work on ‘ Countries other than India’, any such work dealing with relations of India and other countries in context to the three above mentioned subjects, will be awarded the ‘A.K. Narain award’ if found eligible by the Award Committee. Till date there have been two recipients of this award.

Year	Name of Awardee	Title of the book	Place
2000	Dr. M.A. Nayeem	Rock Art of Arabia	New Delhi
2002	Dr. Bachchan Kumar	Glimpses of Early Indo-Indonesian Culture	New Delhi

The award is due and scholars are requested to send their publication as per the terms and condition mentioned above.

Shri Gurudeva Ranade Award

As a humble token of their deep gratitude to Gurudeva Ranade, Shrimati Kusum Lal and Professor B.B. Lal have donated a sum of Rs. 4,50,000.00 (Rs. Four Lakhs Fifty Thousands only) to the Indian Archaeological Society for instituting the “Gurudeva Ranade Award”. The interest accruing from the amount will be utilized to give the award, once in five years.

Year	Name of Awardee	Name of the book	Place
2007	Prof. Dilip K. Chakrabarti	The Archaeological Foundation of India	New Delhi
2013	Prof. Purushottam Singh	Archaeology of Ganga Plain	New Delhi
2016	Dr. Sudha Satyawadi	The Timeless Art of Ajanta	New Delhi

The award is due for the period January, 2017 – December, 2021 and is opened to scholars anywhere in the world for the best book on Indian Archaeology published during the above period.

Dr. S.P. Gupta Memorial Gold Medal

Under the specific Provision of his WILL, the Indian Archaeological Society has instituted two Dr. S.P. Gupta Memorial Gold Medals. One Gold Medal shall be given to the student who tops the final year examination of the course called Postgraduate Diploma in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, the second Gold medal shall be given to the student who tops the list of successful candidate appearing the final year examination of M.A. in ‘History of Art’ of the National Museum Institute, New Delhi.

Sl. No.	Name	Year	National Museum Institute (History of Art)
1.	Ms. Abira Bhattacharya	2010-13
2.	Ms. Radha Sinha	2011-14
3.	Ms. Sania Galundia	2012-15
4.	Ms. Lubna Sen	2013-16
5.	Ms. Sia	2014-17

Sl. No.	Name	Year	Institute of Archaeology
1.	Shri Jayendra Joglekar	2011-13
2.	Ms. Shamika Sarvankar	2012-14
3.	Ms. Neha Pande	2013-15
4.	Ms. Disha Ahluwalia	2014-16
5.	Ms. Ananya Chakraborty	2015-17

Namita Joshi Memorial Gold Medal

Dr. Asha Joshi has donated a sum of Rs. 1,25,000/- (Rupees One lakh twenty five thousand only) to the Indian Archaeological Society for instituting of an award of a gold medal in the name of her deceased daughter Namita Joshi.

The scholars interested for this award should not be more than the age of 40 years on 1st January of the next year and will kindly furnish proof of their age. Namita Joshi Memorial Gold Medal award will be given every year for the best paper presented in the Joint Annual Conference/or subsequent all India symposium.

Year	Name of Awardee	Place
2015	Ms. Amita Gupta	Hyderabad
2016	Mr. Tiatemjen Tzudir	Itanagar (April 2017)
2017	Mr. Andre Baptista	Varanasi
2018	Dr. Goutami Bhattacharya	Patna (February 2019)