Kashinath Narayan Dikshit

Rao Bahadur Kashinath Narayan Dikshit (21 October 1889 – 12 August 1946) was an Indian archaeologist who served as Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1937 to 1944.

Dikshit was born on 21 October 1889 in a Karhade Brahmin family of Pandharpur in the then Bombay Presidency (now Maharashtra, India).

His meticulous work at Mohenjodaro is highly regarded, particularly his excavation of the DK area, which revealed significant insights into the Indus Civilization.

Future generations find inspiration in his life narrative, and his legacy lives on in the field of South Asian archaeology.

The full text of Dikshit's work, "Prehistoric Civilization of the Indus Valley" (1939), and photographs from his archive are available, with ongoing efforts to identify individuals in the images.