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Indian Archaeology After Independence: Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy

Indian Archaeology After Independence: Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy

Ray, Himanshu Prabha
Yadav, Ajay

Hardcover

ArchaeologyGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1041002580
ISBN13: 9781041002581
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book presents the challenges faced by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the first two and a half decades after Indian independence. It looks at the shifts in Government policies, how ASI found its feet in a global environment, and the new realities of economic development such as big dam constructions that invariably resulted in the submergence of archaeological sites. Based on unpublished archival data, this book highlights the contributions of the longest-serving Director-General Amalananda Ghosh and members of his staff. It thus provides a corrective to the histories of archaeology that describe the policies of the post-1947 ASI as a continuation of colonial archaeologists such as Mortimer Wheeler, who was appointed Director-General at the cusp of Indian independence in 1944 by the British.

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