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Archaeology under the Judiciary: Ayodhya 2003
After more than a decade after its demolition, the December 1992 destruction of the sixteenth century mosque in Ayodhya remains a powerful heritage issue. The site is considered sacred by Hindus as the birthplace of their god Rama, and the mosque's demolition caused the loss of about 2000 Indian lives in Hindu-Muslim rioting across India and led to the destruction of Hindu temples in the neighbouring countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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Colonial Indology and identity
This paper argues that Indian identity, as built within the colonial Indological framework of race, language and culture and its Aryan–non-Aryan dichotomy, is unacceptable to modern India and Indians. It is unacceptable because of its emphasis on the notion of Aryan invasion and the subjugation of, and interaction with, the native population. This notion, the key element of ancient Indian history, culture and archaeology, keeps a vast segment of Indian population away from a sense of positive participation in the country's past. Further, the key ingredient of this notion is the Indian Vedic literature, which thus makes it primarily a textual notion, and as long as it persists, the Indian upper castes, who ipso facto are given a place in the Aryan ruling order, have no particular reason to seek a primarily archaeologybased past for themselves. However, before we examine these twin formulations in some detail, it might be useful to look at how the question of identity is emerging as a major phenomenon in India in current years.
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Buddhist sites across South Asia as influenced by political and economic forces
This paper links three major stages of Buddhism's growth and expansion (c. sixth century BC, C. second century BC, and c. first to third centuries AD) to the successive growth and expansion of urban base in India. In the subsequent stages, especially in the period closer to Buddhism's end as a major religious force in the subcontinent in the twelfth to thirteenth centuries AD, the emphasis shifted to the support derived - apparently exclusively - from the regional power-bases like the Bhaumakara kings of Orissa and the Palas of Bengal. What is offered in this paper is only the sketchiest of a sketchy outline, and I suggest that Buddhist sites now call for detailed attention as archaeological sites - not merely as monuments.
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Nationalism in the Study of Ancient Indian History
The historiography of ancient India has been an ideological battleground since the very beginning. The histories of ancient India written during the colonial period by Europeans were heterogenous in nature. On the one hand, there were works with clear imperialist imprint such as the ones by E J Rapson, and on the other hand, we have the pioneering works of Vincent Smith, which are not as imperialist as they are made out to be. The works of nationalist historians such as R K Mukherji, R C Majumdar, U N Ghoshai and others were mainly in response to works like those of Rapson. These pioneering historians of the iate 19th and the first half of the 20th century have been characterized as \"Hindu revivalists by a section of iater Indian historians who mostly belong to the Communist fold. The purpose of the present paper is to put this accusation in the context of the history of research on ancient Indian history and archaeology and judge if this is at aii true or merely a communist propaganda and ploy to build up a 'progressive' versus 'obscurantist' divide among the historians of ancient India. The paper will also examine how certain currents of thought in modern Indian archaeology pose a danger to Indian security.
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The development of archaeology in the Indian subcontinent
Because of its size, the archaeology of India has received the primary attention. All the main stages of Indian archaeology are briefly analysed, and it has been demonstrated how, an impressive number of discoveries notwithstanding, traditional and ancient Indian historical thinking has conditioned archaeological approaches.
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