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ANGADA MEGALITHS

ANGADA MEGALITHS

Although ancient tribal megaliths are found in abundance in most of the states of India from Kashmir to Kerala and from Mizoram to Gujarat yet they have been denied the pride of being the truest source of India's prehistory.

The people of the world and even of our country are ignorant that India indeed is also a country with a hefty repository of ancient megaliths. The government makes no effort to publicise these tribal monuments to the world.

If megaliths of India are ever recognized as venerated heritage of the tribals, many of their civilisations under wraps till now would surface which subsequently will persuade scholars to rewrite India’s unknown prehistory.

This website is therefore a humble attempt to showcase this unknown treasure of Indian tribals; their megaliths to the world.

Muniyara Dolmen. Credit:Transindiatravel.com

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Monday, 20 April 2015

Megalithic sites discovered in Telengana

Monday, April 20, 2015   Subhashis Das.   2 comments

FARMER IN TELEGANA STUMBLES ON A MEGALITH WHILE PLOUGHING WITH TRACTOR A rare Megalithic cist burial (Gudu samadhi) belonging between 1000 BCE and 600 CE has been discovered at Dasaram village close to Musi river in Nereducherla mandal in Nalgonda district in Telengana District. Annapureddy Chandra Reddy, a farmer, stumbled upon the burial when the tractor ploughing agricultural land. Archaeology and Museums Department officials led by Assistant Director D. Ramulu Nayak and former conservator Y. Bhanu Murthy inspected the site and concluded that it was cist burial belonging to Megalithic period....
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Ruined megalithic site dated back to 500 BC found in Kadapa.

Monday, April 20, 2015   Subhashis Das.   2 comments

A megalithic burial site has been discovered near Devandlapalli village in Rayavaram panchayat of Tsundupalle mandal in Kadapa district. In archaeological explorations conducted by Associate Professor G. Sambasiva Reddy, Assistant Professor of History and Archaeology and Assistant Profesor of Geology K. Raghu Babu of Yogi Vemana University, a complex of 20 megalithic monuments were noticed and some of them were dolmens and remaining were dolmen encircles with slabs the left over monuments, dolmenoids-cists encircles with slabs. All the monuments were disturbed by treasure hunters, every burial...
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Friday, 20 March 2015

Vernal Equinox in Punkri Burwadih Megaliths. Hazaribagh. Jharkhand. East India.

Friday, March 20, 2015   Subhashis Das.   No comments

Self portrait at the Punkri Burwadih Megaliths. The crowd had begun to gather in the Punkri Burwadih megalithic complex from about 5.00 AM. We arrived at around 5.45 A.M. The sun here was to rise at about 6.06 A.M. A day prior we laid down lime markers to indicate people where to stand and from where to view the sunrise. Marking with lime to show the alignment of the stones and the place to stand Two menhirs M2 and M3 can be seen positioned adjacent to each other so that a "V" notch is formed. I have observed that menhirs in the state are oriented towards the mid-winter sunrise. Similarly the...
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Monday, 22 December 2014

MEGALITHS OF HAZARIBAGH

Monday, December 22, 2014   Subhashis Das.   5 comments

I am privileged to live in a middle-sized semi-urban town of Hazaribagh in North Jharkhand state of East India. My privilege emerges from reasons confined not only to my town's surrounding being densely wooded or she having a lovely weather but for me precisely for the numerous varied megaliths her environs house. The uniqueness of Hazaribagh megaliths is that they differ from the megaliths of other region. Apart from beingsepulchral monuments...
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ECHO IN PUNKRI BURWADIH MEGALITHS

Monday, December 22, 2014   Subhashis Das.   No comments

The film shoot. It happened during a film shoot in the megalithic complex. I was standing about 2/3 mtrs NE of the menhir B while the camera was positioned about 7/8 mtrs to my opposite. The director wanted me to walk towards the camera while giving the discourse on the megalith. In the process while walking about 2 mtrs opposite the menhir B, I was suddenly taken aback as I felt that I was speaking in an open auditorium. I stopped immediately and called the crew explaining them the phenomenon....
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MEGALITHIC ACTIVITIES IN INDIA


THE PIONEER features "CHOKAHATU MEGALITHS"
First ever song composed on a megalith in India. Rajat Chandra sings on the fascinating megaliths of Punkri Birwadih:
Megalithic burials of the dolmen kind of Andhra Pradesh:

Rare megalithic sites discovered in Chattisgarh:

More than 200 megalithic sites found in Dhamtari and Mahasamund districts of Chattisgarh.


Copper beads found during excavations in megaliths of Kerala. Read on:

A huge mysterious Peru type feature of the letter VI has been discovered on a hillock in Gujarat by Geology scholars. Chances are that the feature could be man made. Read on...

The 'kodakkal' or the 'Umbrella Stones', a type of unique dolmens typical only to Kerala lie in utter neglect. As-Prof Devdas now heads a study on the megaliths of Kerala. Visit:http://varnam.nationalinterest.in/2010/12/saving-megalithic-sites/

125 megaliths have been discovered in the region of Junapani in Vidharba.

About 3000 year old megaliths have been discovered in Nagpur Amravati road.

3000 year old megaliths have been discovered in a college campus of Khammam of A.P. College authorities have planned to protect them. Great Job. Hope there were more like them.


The legendary Burjhaom megaliths of Kashmir: https://www.jstor.org/stable/985068?seq=1