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ARCHAEOLOGISTS OF INDEPENDENT INDIA: Major Personalities and Their Work

By :- Dilip K. Chakrabarti

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Type: English

Pages: 406

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ISBN-13: 9788173057175

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 16cm x 24cm

Product Year: 2025

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This book reviews the work of more than 250 individual archaeologists who have been active in field research in the Archaeological Survey of India, State archaeological organizations and universities since Independence. Archaeology being an academic discipline, this parallels in a sense the performance audit of the Archaeological Survey of India which was prepared by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in 2013. It is a measure of the intellectual interest of the country's archaeological community that they almost totally ignored this important CAG report. The national media took virtually no notice of it and the country's ever-growing band of heritage experts also gave the impression of being unaware of its existence. Getting down to the level of research conducted by individual professional archaeologists, the present volume precisely pinpoints what went on in Indian archaeology after 1947. Considering the enormous amount of money that has been invested in building up archaeological organizations of different types in the country and the enormous sums being invested in maintaining them year by year, the research output listed in the present book is far below expectations. What is worse is that the post-Independence archaeological explanation of the nation's historical past has been in a very great number of cases totally neocolonial, marked by an eagerness to continue being a minor underling of Western archaeology. What is also disturbing is that in many ways the archaeology of various tracts of the country from Ladakh downwards has been handed over to Western archaeological entrepreneurs of different kinds by India's university archaeologists for possibly some personal gains. This volume will throw unerring light on why a famous Parliamentarian of the country, Ram Manohar Lohia, stated on the floor of the Parliament in 1966 that the Indian historiography was 'diseased'.

Preface

1. Introduction

I. The Academic Context

II. How Do We Select Archaeologists for Inclusion in This Volume?

2. Archaeological Survey of India

I. Introduction

II. The Archaeologist Director-Generals

III. Some Senior Officers of the Survey

3. State Departments / Directorates and Related
Establishments

I. Introduction

II. The Northeastern States

III. The Brahmaputra Valley

III.1. Assam

III.2. Concluding Remarks

IV. West Bengal

V. Bihar

VI. Jharkhand

VII. Odisha

VIII. Uttar Pradesh

IX. Uttarakhand

X. Himachal Pradesh

XI. Ladakh, Kashmir, Jammu

XI.1. Ladakh

XI.2. Kashmir

XI. 3. Jammu

XII. Panjab

XIII. Haryana

XIV. Rajasthan

XV. Gujarat

XVI. Madhya Pradesh

XVII. Chhattisgarh

XVIII. Maharashtra

XIX. Goa

XX. Karnataka

XXI. Kerala

XXII. Tamil Nadu

XXIII. Andhra Pradesh and Telengana

XXIV. Some General Observations on This Chapter

4. The Universities and Museums/Research Institutions

I. Introduction

II. Deccan College

II.1. H.D. Sankalia

II.2. Archaeologists Directors of the Deccan College after
H.D. Sankalia

II.3. Some More General Archaeologists of the Deccan College

III. R T M University, Nagpur

IV. Some Archaeologists of South Indian Universities and
Other Institutions

V. Some Archaeologists of Northeastern Universities and
Other Institutions

VI. Some Archaeologists of Odishan Universities and Other Institutions

VII. Some Archaeologists of the Universities in West Bengal and Other Institutions

VIII. Some Archaeologists in the Universities and Other
Institutions of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

IX. Some Archaeologists in the Universities and Other Institutions
of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and the Areas Further North

X. Some Archaeologists in the Universities of Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan and Gujarat

XI. General Observations

5. Archaeological Science

6. The Concluding Observations: the Subversive Factors
at Work

Index

Dilip K Chakrabarti (1941; recipient of Padma Shri, 2019) is emeritus professor of south Asian archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University. He has recently finished editing an eleven-volume study of the History of Ancient India (Vivekananda International Foundation and Aryan Books International, Delhi).

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