Rakesh Tewari

Rakesh Tewari is the current Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and was formerly Director, State Department of Archaeology, Uttar Pradesh starting in 1989. His chief archaeological contribution is to demonstrate that rice was cultivated in the Indian subconntinent as early as the 9th millennium BP, in the site of Lahuradewa. He has also done research on the use of iron in the middle Ganga plains. His appointment was not without controversy.