Preface vii 1. Introduction: Does Nation Matter in the 1 Current Ancient Historical and Archaeological Studies in India? 2. Comptroller and Auditor General?s Report 40 on Indian Museum, Victoria Memorial, Asiatic Society, National Library and Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati: How Cultural Institutions Function in Modern India? 3. Who Owns the Indian Past? The Case of the 55 Indus Civilization 4. Whose Past and Which Past? The Warring 76 Factions of the Ancient Indian Historical Research 5. The Study of Ancient India: Some Historical and 97 National Considerations 6. Power, Politics and Ariya Mayai (?Aryan Illusion?) 115 in the Study of Indian History 7. Amused by Hinduism: The Ancient South Asian 136 World by J.M. Kenoyer and Kimberley Heuston 8. A Colour-coded Perception of Scholarship? 144 Rita P. Wright and the Study of the Indus Civilization 9. Cultural Unity of India: The Evidence of 157 Archaeology and Historical Geography 10. Climate in the Indus Studies: Comments on 173 L. Giosan et al. (2012), Fluvial Landscapes of the Harappan Civilization, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Environmental Sciences 11. Upinder Singh (ed.), Rethinking Early 185 Mediaeval India, a Reader, Delhi, 2011: Oxford University Press 12. R.W. Law, Inter-regional Interaction and 191 Urbanism in the Ancient Indus Valley, a Geologic Provenience Study of Harappan Rock and Mineral Assemblage, Kyoto, 2011: Research Institute for Humanities and Nature 13. Michel Danino, The Lost River, on the Trail of 197 the Sarasvati, Delhi, 2010: Penguin Books 14. K.T.S. Sarao, The Decline of Buddhism in 202 India, a Fresh Perspective, Delhi, 2012: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 15. Virchand Dharamsey, Bhagwanlal Indraji, 207 the First Indian Archaeologist: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of the Past, Vadodara, 2012: Darshak Itihas Nidhi 16. Newspaper Columns 212 16.1. It is the Archaeology, Stupid ! 16.2. The West Knows Best? 16.3. From Indus to India Appendix 225 The Comptroller and Auditor General?s (CAG) ?Performance Audit? of the Archaeological Survey of India Index 307
