“Decolonisation of Indian minds should not lead to hatred. We need to detoxify our minds,” said well-known scholar K. Paddayya while speaking during an online lecture organised by Pleach Foundation.
He spoke on two centuries of Indian archaeology, and sketched out how a systematic study of Indian history began only with the foundation of Asiatic Society by William Jones and how it is still continuing with Indian scholars discovering agro-pastoral sites across the country.
Mr. Paddayya is known in archaeological circles for his research on palaeolithic and neolithic sites in Deccan.
