Hemant Dave studied history, archaeology and Indian philosophy, and holds a doctorate in theoretical archaeology from DeccanCollege, Pune. He has taught post-graduate courses in history for the past twenty-two years in Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat as Associate Professor. His areas of interest are archaeology and literary traditions,historical consciousness in ancient India, Sanskrit aesthetics, Nyāyaepistemology, historical linguistics, mediaeval and modern Gujarati literature,nineteenth century Gujarat, and anthropology of religions. His recent publications are Rāmāyaṇa: between archaeology and text (in Avadhesh KumarSingh, ed., Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa: Voices and Visions, D. K. Printworld, New Delhi),Avnav: Collected Research Articles of Virchand Dharamsey (Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Mumbai), Śabdamūḷ-ni Śhodh (with Suhag Dave, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad,Amdavad), Vadnagar: 2000 Varṣo-nū̃ Jivant Nagar (ed. & tr. with NimaHukeri Gadhvi, Archaeological Survey of India), Historiography of Gujarati Literature: Some Musings (in Harish Trivedi, ed., Indian Literary Historiography: Concepts, Languages, Histories, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi),etc.

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