Bureaucratic archaeology: state, science, and past in postcolonial india
Auteur :
Avikunthak, Ashish
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781316512395
Date de publication :
3 févr. 2022
Dimensions :
23,7 x 16,2 x 2,6 cm
Poids :
600 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of Archaeological Survey of India to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge wielded in the making of political and religious identity by Indian state and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest Indian courts.