Madho Sarup Vats (b.1896; d.1955) was an Indian archaeologist and Sanskrit scholar who served as the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1950 to 1954. He is best known for supervising the excavations at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa from 1925 to 1935.
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