Dilip K. Chakrabarti is University lecturer in south Asian archaeology at Cambridge University. His recent publications include Archaeological Geography of the Ganga Plain: the Lower and the Middle Ganga (Delhi 2001) and The Archaeology of European Expansion in India: Gujarat, c. 16th-18th Centuries ( in Press). His current field-research programmes include a historical geographical study of the upper Ganga plain and a similar study of the routes, which linked the Ganga plain with the Deccan.