The cultural wing of the RSS, Sanskar Bharati, plans 100 heritage walks in honour of Wakankar. Government-run cultural institutions like Lalit Kala Akademi have scheduled year-long programmes in his honour.

In its bid to rewrite the colonial history from an Indian perspective, the Sangh Parivar has turned to archaeologists like Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar, who had discovered the Bhimbetka caves.

The Bhimbetka caves are known as the earliest evidence of human settlements in this part of the world. Wakankar is also famous for his work on tracing the river Saraswati, which finds mention in the Vedas, but is considered a myth by historians.

The cultural wing of the RSS, Sanskar Bharati, plans 100 heritage walks in honour of Wakankar. Government-run cultural institutions like Lalit Kala Akademi have scheduled year-long programmes in his honour. A special gallery will also come up at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), sources told ET.

Wakankar had discovered 700-odd rock shelters, spread over a 10-km area in Bhimbetka. The caves have paintings which, according to scientists, were created approximately 30 ..