HISTORY
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De Terra and Paterson
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H D Sankalia
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Robert Bruce Foote
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Burkitt
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Detailed explanation-1: -Complete answer: Robert Bruce Foote, a British geologist and archaeologist who worked for the Geological Survey of India, was the first person to carry out geological studies regarding prehistoric India.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the age of 24, Foote joined the Indian geological survey, with which he remained for 33 years. After the archaeological survey was established in 1862, he began the first systematic research of human prehistoric remains in India, making the first discovery of hand axes in that country in 1863.
Detailed explanation-3: -Robert would even take his son along on digs, and Henry eventually became a famous geologist and archaeologist in his own right, discovering stone artefacts in the Billasurgam cave complex, in modern-day Andhra Pradesh, in 1884.