Editing Mortimer Wheeler (section)

===Biographies and studies===

[[File:SIR MORTIMER WHEELER 1890-1976 Archæologist lived here.jpg|thumb|A [[blue plaque]] marks Wheeler's former residence in the [[City of Westminster]], London]]

In 1960, Ronald William Clark published a biography titled ''Sir Mortimer Wheeler''.{{sfn|Clark|1960}} [[FitzRoy Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan]], reviewed the volume for the journal ''[[Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute|Man]]'', describing "this very readable little book" as being "adulatory" in tone, "but hardly more so than its subject deserves."{{sfn|Raglan|1961|p=60}} In 1982, the archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes published a second biography, ''Mortimer Wheeler: Adventurer in Archaeology''. Hawkes admitted she had developed "a very great liking" for Wheeler, having first met him when she was an archaeology student at the [[University of Cambridge]].{{sfn|Hawkes|1982|p=1}} She believed that he had "a daemonic energy", with his accomplishments in India being "almost superhuman".{{sfn|Hawkes|1982|p=3}} Ultimately, she thought of him as being "an epic hero in an anti-heroic age" in which growing social [[egalitarianism]] had stifled and condemned aspects of his greatness.{{sfn|Hawkes|1982|p=2}}

In the 2000 film ''[[Hey Ram]]'', the lead character, Saket Ram (played by [[Kamal Haasan]]) and his friend, Amjad Khan (played by [[Shah Rukh Khan]]) are shown as employees of Wheeler, who was portrayed by Lewis K. Elbinger, before the [[Religious violence in India#Partition of British India (1947)|1947 Hindu–Muslim riots]].{{Sfnm|1a1=Bollywood Hungama|2a1=Vasudevan|2y=2011|2p=259}} In a 2003 volume of the ''South Asian Studies'' journal, Sudeshna Gusha published a research article examining Wheeler's use of photography in his excavations and publications in the Indian subcontinent.{{sfn|Guha|2003b}}
In 2011, the academic journal ''[[Public Archaeology (journal)|Public Archaeology]]'' published a research paper by Moshenska and Schadla-Hall that analysed Wheeler's role in presenting archaeology to the British public.{{sfn|Moshenska|Schadla-Hall|2011}} Two years later, the ''[[Papers from the Institute of Archaeology]]'' issued a short [[comic strip]] by Moshenska and Alex Salamunovich depicting Wheeler's activities in studying the archaeology of Libya during World War II.{{sfn|Moshenska|Salamunovich|2013}}