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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian academic}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar<br />
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| birth_name = Prakāścandra Pāṇḍuraṅga Śiroḍakara<br />
| birth_date = 1941<br />
| birth_place = India<br />
| death_date = {{death date|2021|05|06|df=y}}<br />
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| occupation = writer, archaeologist, historian<br />
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'''Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar''', (1941 – 6 May 2021),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/archivist-prakashchandra-shirodkar-dies-in-bengaluru/articleshow/82445683.cms|title=Archivist Prakashchandra Shirodkar dies in Bengaluru|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=6 May 2021|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> the eldest son of late [[Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar]], was an [[Indologist]], [[archaeologist]], writer. His father, Pandurang Shirodkar, was one of the most prominent freedom fighters of [[Goa]], and also served as the first speaker of the [[Goa Legislative Assembly|Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Gomant Kalika |publisher=Kalika prakashan vishwast mandal |location=Magao, Goa |issue=May 2000 |language=Marathi }}</ref> Prakashchandra Shirodkar worked as the director of Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum of Goa for over two decades.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} He was also the Executive Editor of the Goa Gazetteer Department for about 20 years.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} Śiroḍakara had devoted his life to research, and has made valuable contributions in the field of Archeology and [[History of Go]]a.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Goa/Earliest-stone-inscription-lies-neglected/articleshow/4678096.cms |title=Earliest stone inscription lies neglected |last=Kerkar |first=Rajendra P. |date=20 June 2009 |publisher=Times of India, Goa |accessdate=20 August 2009 }}</ref> He has been the Founder Editor of ''Colloquium'', a research journal of the Goa Institute for Historical and Cultural Research as well as ''Purābhileka-Purātatva'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32733701?q=%22+Goa%2C+Daman+and+Diu+%28India%29+History.%22&c=article |title=NLA's listing of Purabhileka-Puratatva |publisher=trove.nla.gov.au }}</ref> a research journal of the Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum, Goa (1986–1999).{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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In 1993, Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar discovered [[rock art]] engravings on lateritic platforms and granite boulders from Usgalimal on the banks of west-flowing river [[Kushavati]], which has shed light on the [[prehistory]] of Goa and the existence of humans in Goa during the [[Paleolithic]] and [[Mesolithic]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Kalyan Kumar |last1=Chakravarty |first2=Robert G. |last2=Bednarik |first3=Indirā |last3=Gāndhī Rāshṭrīya Mānava Saṅgrahālaya |title=Indian Rock Art and Its Global Context |year=1997 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=9788120814646 |page=34 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Goa (India : State). Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, Goa University |title=Goa in the Indian sub-continent: seminar papers |year=2001 |publisher=Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, Govt. of Goa |location=Goa |page=24 }}</ref>.He died on 6 May 2021 due to ill health.<br />
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==Literary work==<br />
Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar has authored and edited several books and research articles. His work includes:<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?q=+inauthor:%22Pra.+P%C4%81+%C5%9Airo%E1%B8%8Dakara%22&source=gbs_authrefine_t |title=Prakāścandra Pāṇḍuraṅga Śiroḍakara's books on Google books }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3APrakashchandra+Pandurang+Shirodkar&qt=results_page |title=Search results for 'au:Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar' |publisher=worldcat.org }}</ref><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Year<br />
! Title<br />
! Location<br />
! Publisher<br />
|-<br />
| 1961<br />
| ''Goa's Freedom Struggle: Selected Writings of T. B. Cunha''<br />
| Goa<br />
| T. B. Cunha Memorial Committee<br />
|-<br />
| 1979<br />
| ''Kolhāpūra-portugeja saṃbaṃdha'': Govā purābhilekha saṃgrahālayāṃtūna nivaḍalele kāgada<br />
| Kolhāpūra<br />
| Yaśavaṃtarava Saṃ. Taste<br />
|-<br />
| 1988<br />
| ''Goa: Cultural Trends: Seminar Papers''<br />
| Goa, Daman and Diu (India)<br />
| Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum, Government of Goa<br />
|-<br />
| 1988<br />
| ''Goa's Struggle for Freedom''<br />
| India<br />
| Ajanta Publications<br />
|-<br />
| 1989<br />
| ''Āṭhavaṇī mājhyā kārāvāsācyā kāḷyā-niḷyā pānyācyā''<br />
| Paṇājī<br />
| Gomantaka Marāṭhī Akādamī<br />
|-<br />
| ????<br />
| ''Goa''{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
| ???<br />
| ???<br />
|-<br />
| 1990<br />
| ''Who's Who of Freedom Fighters, Goa, Daman, and Diu'', Volume 2<br />
| Goa, Daman and Diu (India)<br />
| Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa<br />
|-<br />
| 1991<br />
| ''Trial of T.B. Cunha''<br />
| Goa<br />
| Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa<br />
|-<br />
| 1992<br />
| ''Goa's External Relations: Seminar Papers''<br />
| Goa<br />
| Directorate of Archives, Archaeology, and Museum, Goa University<br />
|-<br />
| 1992<br />
| ''Trial of Laxmikant Venkatesh Prabhu Bhembre''<br />
| Panaji, Goa<br />
| Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa<br />
|-<br />
| 1993<br />
| ''Trial of Rama Krishna Hegde''<br />
| Goa<br />
| Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa<br />
|-<br />
| 1993<br />
| ''Source Material for the History of the Freedom Movement of Goa: Collected from Goa Archives'', Volume 3<br />
| Goa<br />
| Goa Gazetteer Dept., Goa Archives<br />
|-<br />
| 1993<br />
| ''People of India: Goa''<br />
| India<br />
| Anthropological Survey of India<br />
|-<br />
| 1996<br />
| ''Trial of P.K. Kakodkar: Source Material for the History of The Freedom Movement of Goa'' (Collected from Goa Archives), Volume 5<br />
| Goa<br />
| Goa Gazetteer Dept., Government of Goa<br />
|-<br />
| 1997<br />
| ''Portuguese Palaeography''<br />
| Goa, India<br />
| Mrs. Sulabha P. Shirodka<br />
|-<br />
| 1998<br />
| ''Researches in Indo-Portuguese history'', Volumes 1 and 2<br />
| Jaipur<br />
| Publication Scheme<br />
|-<br />
| 1999<br />
| ''Trial of the Four: Pandurang P. Shirodkar, Dr. Vinayak N. Mayenkar, Guilherme de Souza Ticló, Nilkanth M. Karapurkar''''<br />
| Goa<br />
| Goa Gazetteer Dept., Goa Archives<br />
|-<br />
| 2001<br />
| ''Gomantakācī Marāṭhī asmitā''<br />
| Paṇajī<br />
| Gomantaka Marāṭhī Akādamī<br />
|-<br />
| 2005<br />
| ''Honorable Jagannath Shankarshet''<br />
| Goa<br />
| Pradnya-Darshan Prakashan<br />
|-<br />
| 2012<br />
|''World War II: Blazing Midnight: German Remote Control at Marmagoa Silenced''<br />
| Bardez, Goa<br />
| Pradnya-Darshan Prakashan<br />
|}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Daivadnya Brahmin]]<br />
* [[List of people from Goa]]<br />
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