Artefacts of history: archaeology, historiography and Indian pasts/ Sudeshna Guha.

By:

Sudeshna Guha

Publication details: New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., 2015.Description: xiii, 273 p., 15 unnumbered pages of platesISBN:

9789351501640 (hardback : alkaline paper)

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DDC classification:

954.007 2 Q5

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Contents:

Histories, historiography, archaeology : an introduction -- Antiquarianism and South Asia : questioning histories of origins -- Nineveh in Bombay : the curation of foreign antiquities and histories of india -- The connected histories of philology and archaeology -- Fashioning the unknown : Gordon Childe's imprints upon the Indus civilisation -- Civilisation, heritage and the archaeological scholarship -- Conclusion: A vision for archaeology : partition, nationalism and the Indian pasts.

Scope and content: "Through little known histories of the practices, governance and scholarship of the archaeology of India this book encourages a regard of the manner in which the past is recalled and historicized. It guides us to think afresh of the histories of antiquarianism in South Asia, explore the impetus of collecting and curatorial practices within the scholarship of pre-colonial India, and investigate the diverse historical linkages within the histories of Indian archaeology. It encourages a focus upon issues of historiography, methodology and notions of evidence for responding to the responsibilities and changing needs of the academic scholarship of archaeology"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-269) and index.

"Through little known histories of the practices, governance and scholarship of the archaeology of India this book encourages a regard of the manner in which the past is recalled and historicized. It guides us to think afresh of the histories of antiquarianism in South Asia, explore the impetus of collecting and curatorial practices within the scholarship of pre-colonial India, and investigate the diverse historical linkages within the histories of Indian archaeology. It encourages a focus upon issues of historiography, methodology and notions of evidence for responding to the responsibilities and changing needs of the academic scholarship of archaeology"--Provided by publisher.

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