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Bureaucratic archaeology : state, science and past in postcolonial India /

"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 cor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Avikunthak, Ashish, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:South Asia in the social sciences.
Subjects:
Archæological Survey of India > History.
Archæological Survey of India.
India > Antiquities.
Archaeology > Political aspects > India.
Excavations (Archaeology) > India.
Sacred space > India.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General.
Antiquities.
Archaeology > Political aspects.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Sacred space.
India.
History.
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.