Marshalling the past : ancient India and its modern histories / Nayanjot Lahiri.

By:

Lahiri, Nayanjot [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2012. Description: x, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:

9788178243481 (hbk.)
8178243482 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

954 LAH 23 003613

LOC classification:

DS475 .L34 2012

Contents:

Part 1. Ancient heritage and modern histories -- part 2. Artefacts and landscapes -- part 3. An archaeologist and a historian.

Summary: Archaeologists find unexpected things during their digs—as does Lahiri. By unearthing new archival material and by looking at the ways in which the personal and the professional mix in their writings, she gives us new facets of two iconic scholars of ancient India, the archaeologist John Marshall and the historian D.D. Kosambi. Both are crucial figures: Marshall headed the group that discovered the Indus civilization; Kosambi changed the way in which ancient Indian history was written after Independence. Lahiri gives us pictures of them that no one else has.--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	954 LAH 003613 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003613

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Ancient heritage and modern histories -- part 2. Artefacts and landscapes -- part 3. An archaeologist and a historian.

Archaeologists find unexpected things during their digs—as does Lahiri. By unearthing new archival material and by looking at the ways in which the personal and the professional mix in their writings, she gives us new facets of two iconic scholars of ancient India, the archaeologist John Marshall and the historian D.D. Kosambi. Both are crucial figures: Marshall headed the group that discovered the Indus civilization; Kosambi changed the way in which ancient Indian history was written after Independence. Lahiri gives us pictures of them that no one else has.--Publisher description.

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