• He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1968 to 1972, and has worked as President of the World Archaeological Congress.
• He also served in for UNESCO committees.
• He acknowledged the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2000.
• He has finished excavations in the Indus Valley Civilization with Mortimer Wheeler and other archaeologists.
• He was taught in excavation by the veteran archaeologist.

His Works

• The Earliest Civilization of South Asia (1997)
• India 1947-1997: New Light on the Indus Civilization (1998)
• Lal, B.B., (1984) Frontiers of the Indus Civilization.1984.
• Lal, B.B. 2005. The Homeland of the Aryans. Evidence of Rigvedic Flora and Fa