Shri Amar Nath Khanna was born at Multan in West Punjab in 1936. He holds a Master?s degree in History and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Archaeology from the School (now Institute) of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. Shri Khanna has had the rare opportunity of visiting and studying monuments and pilgrim shrines scattered all over the Indian sub-continent as well as in South-East Asia, China and Japan during the last half a century. He retired as Senior Technical Officer, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in 1996 while earlier he had been working as a Senior Officer with the President of India. In 1998, he was invited again by Shri R. Venkataraman, former President of India, to work with him even after retirement. He had been the Registering Officer for Antiquities in Himachal Pradesh and was associated with Shri Rajeev Sethi, Padma Bhushan, in the Aditi Exhibition curated by him in the Festival of India, U.S.A., the Basic Human Needs Pavilion set up in Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany and Celebration of 150 years of the First War of Independence, 1857, in 2007. He was associated with Smt. Pupul Jayakar, Adviser to Prime Minister on Heritage and Cultural Resources, in the Festivals of India held in the U.S.A. and Japan and the Year of India in France. He was a Member of the Presidential Delegations to Japan in 1990 and China in 1992. Shri Khanna?s book Archaeology of India was published in 1981. Its revised and enlarged edition which covered Pakistan and Bangladesh also was published in 1992 and was highly appreciated among others by the President of India and Dr. Karl Khandalavala. His book Pilgrim Shrines of India, published in 2003, has won appreciation of H.H. Jagadguru Shri Shankaracharya, Dakshin Aamnaya, Sringeri. Shri Khanna has also edited four books, the latest being The Diverse World of Indian Painting, Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2008. Shri Khanna?s research papers have been published in leading journals in India. Curren
