03044namaa2200625uu 4500 oapen104453 oapen 20251217011843.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 250806s2025a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003607410 9781003863595 9781041002581 10.4324/9781003607410 doi oapen oapen eng dc G thema GT thema GTM thema J thema JB thema N thema NH thema NHB thema NHF thema NK thema Prabha Ray, Himanshu edt Indian Archaeology After Independence Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy London Taylor & Francis Routledge India [Imprint] 2025 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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 Based on unpublished archival data, this book highlights the contributions of the longest-serving Director-General Amalananda Ghosh and members of his staff.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 https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Archaeology thema Asian history thema General and world history thema History and Archaeology thema History thema Interdisciplinary studies thema Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects thema Regional / International studies thema Society and culture: general thema Society and Social Sciences thema Archaeology Prabha Ray, Himanshu aut Yadav, Ajay aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104453 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36700 36700