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  title info:
    title: Bureaucratic archaeology
    sub title: state, science and past in postcolonial India
  title info:
    title: State, science and past in postcolonial India
  name:
    name part: Avikunthak, Ashish
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Past has played a formidable role in the self-fashioning of the modern Indian nation-state. Along with historical narratives, archaeology materiality has significantly contributed to the reimagination of India as a contiguous entity spanning more than five thousand years. The institutional core of the production of ancient materiality for the last hundred and fifty years has been the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The demolition of Babri Mosque in 1992, the subsequent communal violence and political machination of Hindu fundamentalists has pushed archaeology and its meaning into sharp focus in the Indian political universe. The 2003 Ayodhya excavation by the ASI and the 2010 judgment by the Allahabad High Court adjudicating the presence of a temple under the demolished medieval Mosque have put the archaeological practices of the ASI under severe scrutiny. The excavation practices of the ASI has been questioned, debated and disputed in the quagmire of Indian public sphere. This book steps into this contested world and provides a critical, theoretically nuanced, empirically rich insight into the making of past in contemporary India. It is an anthropological investigation of bureaucratic archaeology in the times of science, religion and politics. It negotiates the institutional world of ASI, now fraught with troubled colonial legacy, slow governmental machinery and entrenched disenchantment amongst its ranks and file. Bureaucratic Archaeology lays open this social universe of postcolonial archaeologists and demonstrates the impact of administrative structures on the daily practice of knowledge production"--
  table of contents: Anthropology of Archaeology -- The Making of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization -- Bureaucratic Hierarchy in the ASI -- Spatial Formation of the Archaeological Field -- Epistemological Formation of the Archaeological Site -- Theory of Archaeological Excavation -- Making of the Archaeological Artifact -- Performance of Archaeological Representations -- The Absent Excavation Reports.
  note: Ashish Avikunthak.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Archæological Survey of India
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Archæological Survey of India.
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Sacred space
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
  subject:
    topic: Sacred space
  subject:
    geographic: India
  classification: DS418 .A95 2021
  classification: 934/.01
  classification: POL040020
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    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
    identifier: (DLC) 2021029691
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  identifier: 9781316512395
  identifier: 1316512398
  identifier: 9781009067119
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210625
    record change date: 20250308175631.9
    record identifier: in00004583240
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng