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TOWRDS NATIONALIST NARRATIVE OF INDIA'S ANCIENT PAST (Record no. 195910)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788173056666
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Terms of availability Gifted
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Classification number 934
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Personal name Dilip K Chakrabarti
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Title TOWRDS NATIONALIST NARRATIVE OF INDIA'S ANCIENT PAST
Remainder of title : Including Recent Research on Indus Civilization
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Aryan Books International
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2022
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Size of unit 234
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General note In 1966 the famous Indian parliamentarian Ram Manohar Lohia regretted in Parliament that the minds of our children were ingrained with the belief that “India had nothing of its own; everything was either imitated or influenced by outside factors”. He called the Indian historiography ‘diseased’. His opinion was echoed by M.C. Chagla, the education minister, who advocated the idea of re-writing Indian history. Taking Dr. Lohia’s opinion as the starting point, the present volume goes on to argue that post-Independence Indian archaeologists, despite making many new discoveries, have been most unashamedly neocolonial without the least awareness of the interrelationship between archaeological data and nationalism. The volume deals with multiple aspects of this interrelationship and undertakes a critical review of the recent research on the Indus civilization, showing that the very idea of the integrity and homogeneity of this civilization, which is the fountainhead of India’s mainstream civilization, is being currently undermined by both Indian and foreign archaeologists who consider it only a veneer on top of the regional elements.<br/>Finally, the volume argues that the geographical and chronological implications of some recent discoveries conclusively underline that India’s protohistoric archaeological column and the literary column represented by the Vedic literature are inseparably linked, thus forming the first block of the seamless narrative of India’s ancient past.<br/><br/>Dilip K. Chakrabarti (1941) is emeritus professor of south Asian archaeology at Cambridge University. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2019. In 2021 he received a ‘life-time achievement’ award from the UK Bengali Convention (UKBC).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History & geography 
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History of ancient world (to ca. 499) 
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element South Asia to 647
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks 2025-07-19 Gifted 795.00 RRRLF, 2025/07/19 1 2 934 DIL/TO E1101717 2025-08-13 2025-07-25 2025-07-19 Lending