Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and the Indian Pasts by Sudeshna Guha
Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and the Indian Pasts
Second Edition
AUTHOR- Sudeshna Guha
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- AUTHOR : Sudeshna Guha
- HB ISBN : 978-93-7033-523-3
- Year : 2026
- Extent : 508
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Through little-known histories of the practice, governance and scholarship of the archaeology of India, Artefacts of History examines the manner in which the past is recalled and historicized. It encourages a focus upon issues of historiography, methodology, and notions of evidence and regards the ways in which ideologies of cultural heritage and civilizational legacies are transformed into tangible and visible things through the archaeological scholarship.
This second edition, with a Preface and a new note about ‘Nineveh in Bombay’, re-presents the importance of seeing the diverse linkages that constitute archaeology’s histories. The new addition augments the book’s thrust to regard histories of collecting and curating, and addresses issues of ethics and responsibilities within the academic scholarship of archaeology.
The Author
Sudeshna Guha is currently a professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence (Delhi-NCR), India. She has been a Tagore Scholar at National Museum, New Delhi; Research Associate, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Lecturer in South Asian History, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, at University of Cambridge. She researches on histories of archaeologies, photography, collecting practices, museums and heritage-making, and is the editor (and lead contributor) of The Marshall Albums: Photography and Archaeology (2010) and Histories in the Making: Photographing Indian Monuments 1855–1920 (2024), and the author of A History of India Through 75 Objects (2022). Her recent publications include a status report of the tribal arts in the Central Indian Tribal Belt (2022), essays on aspects of human–animal relations in the arts of pre-colonial Deccan (2023), and representations of craft practices in pre-colonial India (2024).