Bureaucratic Archaeology. State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India, Hardback/***

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. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Ashish (University of Rhode Island) Avikunthak Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises Number of pages: 358 Collection: South Asia in the Social Sciences Publication date: 2022 Dimensions: 237 x 162 x 26 Cover type: Hardback