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Coming to Grips with the Indian Past: John Marshall's Early Years as Lord Curzon's Director-General of Archaeology in India — Part I
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This article is published in South Asian Studies.The article was published on 1998-01-01. It has received 10 citations till now.read more
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Archaeology and identity in colonial India
TL;DR: In this article, a Brahmin of the Baptist missionary, John Chamberlain, was asked to sell the image of Lukshinee, which stood on the point where the river and rivulet meet, and he would give me a sum of money if I could consent to it.
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Coming to Grips with India's Past and her ‘Living Present’: John Marshall's Early Years (1902–06) - Part II
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Locating an Antiquarian Initiative in a Late 19 th Century Colonial Landscape: Rivett-Carnac and the Cultural Imagining of the Indian Sub-Continent
TL;DR: In this article, an epistemology of comparative archaeology was formed through the ways in which he compared evidence recorded from different parts of India to those documented in Great Britain and northern Europe.
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The Journey of Kalidas Datta and the Construction of Regional History in Pre- and Post-Independent Bengal, India
TL;DR: The work of amateur archaeologist Kalidas Datta has been used to reconstruct the regional history of the Sundarbans, a region lying in south 24 Parganas, West Bengal, in eastern India as mentioned in this paper.
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In Pursuit of the Past: The Development of an 'Official' and 'Academic' Archaeology in Bengal
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of archaeology as a discipline in Bengal in the official and the academic sphere covering the period from the first half of the twentieth century to the early 1960s is discussed.
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John Marshall's Appointment as Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India: A Survey of the Papers Pertaining to His Selection
TL;DR: The intention de l'auteur est, par le biais de cet article, de partager avec ses collegues chercheurs les quelques documents emanants du gouvernement indien auxquels il a eu acces and qui se rapportent aux circonstances de sa designation a ce poste.