Rakesh Tewari (born 2 October 1953) now retired, served as the Director General of the

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(2014 - 2017), and was formerly Director, State Department of Archaeology,

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from 1988 to 2013. He is an Indian citizen and was born in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh. His chief archaeological contribution is to demonstrate that rice was cultivated in the Indian subcontinent as early as the 9th millennium BP, in the site of

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. He has also done research on the use of

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in the middle

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plains. He was succeeded by

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