DACRI was founded in 2009 in Hyderabad to promote historical and cultural research among the people of the Deccae.
In 2012, members of Deccan Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute (DACRI) and other archeologists and historians discovered a series of 20 megalithic burial cairn circles dating to 1000 BCE on a hillock in Madugala village in Mahbubnagar district, India.