Professor Vansant Shinde is a varsatile personality in the field of archaeology. He is an eminent archaeologist, academician and an international personality and authority on Indian archaeology. He has contributed immensely to archaeology for the past 40 years. Over the years he has strengthened Indian archaeology by guiding students from various institutes in India and abroad. These students are from different disciplines and specialize in different branches of archaeology. Culture, Tradition and Continuity: Disquisitions in Honour of Prof. Vasant Shinde not only has articles pertaining to Harappan or Chalcolithic studies but has a wide spectrum of articles from various periods of archaeology. The volume includes 57 articles by eminent Indian and foreign authors ranging from pre-historic studies to contemporary times. The first four articles are biographic in nature and the authors have shared their own experiences with Prof. Vasant Shinde.