Indian Archaeology After Independence Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy
Prabha Ray, Himanshu
Indian Archaeology After Independence Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy - London Taylor & Francis Routledge India [Imprint] 2025 - 1 online resource
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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 Based on unpublished archival data, this book highlights the contributions of the longest-serving Director-General Amalananda Ghosh and members of his staff.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. The book will be indispensable to researchers and scholars of history, heritage studies and archaeology, and South Asian studies. It will also be of appeal to those interested in the history of archaeology and the development of the discipline in India.
Open licence
eng
9781003607410 9781003863595 9781041002581
10.4324/9781003607410 doi
Archaeology
Asian history
General and world history
History and Archaeology
History
Interdisciplinary studies
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional / International studies
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Archaeology
Indian Archaeology After Independence Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy - London Taylor & Francis Routledge India [Imprint] 2025 - 1 online resource
Free-to-read
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 Based on unpublished archival data, this book highlights the contributions of the longest-serving Director-General Amalananda Ghosh and members of his staff.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. The book will be indispensable to researchers and scholars of history, heritage studies and archaeology, and South Asian studies. It will also be of appeal to those interested in the history of archaeology and the development of the discipline in India.
Open licence
eng
9781003607410 9781003863595 9781041002581
10.4324/9781003607410 doi
Archaeology
Asian history
General and world history
History and Archaeology
History
Interdisciplinary studies
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional / International studies
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Archaeology
