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