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August 25, 2009 - Goanet's 15th Anniversary
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A blog of Goa former archives director Dr PP Shirodkar, who
spends time at Bangalore. His contacts:
9823 769410
ppshirod...@rediffmail.com
http://drppshirodkar.blogspot.com/
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Dr. Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar (68) hails from the illustrious
family of Goa. Eldest son of the late Shri. Pandurang P. Shirodkar,
one of the most prominent freedom fighters of Goa and the first
Speaker of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly, he had his
doctorate in Political Science from the University of Bombay. At 21,
he joined the field of journalism in 1962 and wrote an extensive
column on Foreign Affairs in Sunday Maratha (Marathi) of the late
Acharya P. K. Atre.
He joined the Free Press Journal, Mumbai in 1967 and was its Chief
Sub-Editor in 1976 when he left it to join the Directorate of
Archives, Archaeology and Museum, Goa where he was appointed as its
Director in 1980, the post which he held for about two decades. He was
also the Executive Editor of the Goa Gazetteer Department for about 20
years. Since 1962, his entire life has been devoted to research.
Author of several books and numerous research articles, he has put a
focus on the panorama of the Portuguese colonial history from Brazil
to Africa to South East Asia. A prolific writer and research scholar,
some of his books namely 'Researches in Indo-Portuguese History (2
Vols.), 'Goa's Struggle for Freedom', 'Kolhapur-Portuguese Sambandh'
and 'Portuguese Palaeography' are well-known as authoritative works.
He has been on the Executive Committee of the International Seminar on
Indo-Portuguese History, Lisbon for two terms.
He has contributed several research papers to the international and
national seminars and edited several books. He had been specifically
invited as representative of Asia to contribute on India and Brazil
through the Ages to the Fifth Centenary Commemoration Volume on the
Discovery of Brazil by the Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba,
Brazil. He is considered as one of the few experts in the field of
Portuguese Palaeography. He has been the Founder Editor of Colloquium,
a research journal of the Goa Institute for Historical and Cultural
Research as well as Purabhilekh-Puratatva, a research journal of the
Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum, Goa (1986-1999).
He was instrumental in the discoveries of the largest Megalithic
Mother Goddess in the country, the 5-km long port wall of Kadambas,
Mesolithic period rock art carvings of Usgalimal and Kajur and
numerous Megaliths of Goa. He has contributed much to Goan history,
archaeology, art, history, numismatics, etymology and anthropology. He
had been associated with the Goa University right from its inception
and besides having been the Guide in History, he was on its various
academic bodies including the Academic Council for over two decades..
He has been associated with several academic and research institutions
in the country and abroad. The present work is the magnum opus, which
can be considered as the most glorious chapter in his 46-year research
life.
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(0832) 6524346 / 2415850
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