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'''Shereen F. Ratnagar''' is an [[India]]n [[Archaeology|archaeologist]] whose work has focused on the [[Indus Valley Civilization]]. She is the author of several books and academic textbooks.

==Career==
Ratnagar was educated at [[Deccan College (Pune)|Deccan College]], [[University of Pune]]. She studied [[Mesopotamian]] [[archaeology]] at the [[UCL Institute of Archaeology|Institute of Archaeology]], [[University College London]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://a.harappa.com/content/shereen-ratnagar |title=Shereen Ratnagar |publisher=Harappa.com |accessdate=2014-12-25 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226043356/http://a.harappa.com/content/shereen-ratnagar |archivedate=26 December 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

She was a [[professor]] of archaeology and [[ancient history]] at the Centre for Historical Studies at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[Delhi]]. She retired in 2000, and is currently an independent researcher living in [[Mumbai]]. She is noted for work on investigating the factors contributing to the end of the Indus Valley Civilization.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.topoi.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/20131128_lecture-shereen-ratnagar.pdf |title=Shereen Ratnagar: A past to mirror ourselves |publisher=Topoi.org |accessdate=2014-12-25}}</ref>

==Ayodhya dispute==
Shereen Ratnagar along with archaeologist [[D. Mandal]] spent a day, in 2003, examining the court-ordered excavations conducted by the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] (ASI) at the site of the [[Babri Masjid]] on behalf of the [[Sunni Central Waqf Board]] (the Muslim litigant in the dispute). Subsequently, the two researchers wrote a highly critical appraisal of the excavations by the ASI titled ''Ayodhya: Archaeology after Excavation''. In 2010, they appeared as expert witnesses for the Sunni Waqf Board in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case in the [[Allahabad High Court]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEwLzEwLzEwI0FyMDA2MDE |title=Trench warfare: Writing on the Wall |newspaper= Times of India |date=16 October 2010 |accessdate=2014-12-25}}</ref>

In its judgement on the Ayodhya dispute, the High Court flayed the role played by several witnesses including Ratnagar, who was forced to admit under oath that she had no field experience in [[archeological]] [[excavations]] in India.<ref name="court">[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/How-Allahabad-HC-exposed-experts-espousing-Masjid-cause/articleshow/6716643.cms How Allahabad HC exposed experts espousing Masjid-cause], Times of India, 9 October 2010.{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825115050/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/How-Allahabad-HC-exposed-experts-espousing-Masjid-cause/articleshow/6716643.cms?referral=PM |date=25 August 2019}}</ref> Ratnagar and her supporters{{who?|date=August 2020}} defend her record by stating that she has participated in some archaeological digs at sites outside India, such as [[Tell al-Rimah]], [[Iraq]], in 1971,<ref name="rimah">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/view/4199937 ''Iraq'' Vol. 34, No. 2 (Autumn, 1972), pp. 77-86. Published by: British Institute for the Study of Iraq]</ref> as well as in Turkey and the Gulf.<ref>[http://www.indiaclub.com/Shop/SearchResults.asp?prodstock=12890 Publisher's statement on Shereen Ratnagar, Trading Encounters (Oxford University Press, 2006)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124090959/http://indiaclub.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=12890 |date=24 November 2010 }}</ref>{{primary-source-inline|date=August 2020}}

Earlier in the case, Shereen Ratnagar was served a [[Contempt of Court|contempt]] notice for violating a court order restraining witnesses in the ongoing case from airing their views in public.<ref name="contempt_notice">[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/babri-witnesses-get-hc-contempt-notice/621315/ Babri witnesses get HC contempt notice], Indian Express, Thu 20 May 2010, 04:18 hrs</ref>

==Publications==
*''Encounters, the westerly trade of the Harappa civilization'', [[Oxford University Press]] (1981).
*''Enquiries into the political organization of Harappan society'', Ravish Publishers (1991).
*''The End of the Great Harappan Tradition'', New Delhi: Manohar, {{ISBN|81-7304-331-0}}. (2000)
*''Understanding Harappa: Civilization in the greater Indus Valley'', [[Tulika Books]], {{ISBN|81-85229-37-6}} (2002)
*''Mobile and Marginalized Peoples'', New Delhi: Manohar (2003)
*''Trading Encounters: From the Euphrates to the Indus in the Bronze Age,'' [[Oxford University Press]] (2nd edition), {{ISBN|0-19-568088-X}} (2006)
*''The Other Indians - Essays on Pastoralists and Prehistoric Tribal People'', [[Three Essays Collective]] (2004)
*''Ayodhya: Archaeology After Excavation'', New Delhi: [[Tulika Books]] (2007)
*''The Timechart History of Ancient Egypt'', Worth (2007). {{ISBN|190302532X}}.
*''Makers and Shapers: Early Indian Technology in the Household, Village, and Urban Workshop'', [[Tulika Books]] (2007).
*''Being Tribal'', [[Primus Books]] (2010). {{ISBN|9380607024}}.

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