Chapter Amalananda Ghosh as Director-General (1953–68)

The book presents the challenges faced by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the first two and a half decades after Indian independence. It looks at the shifts in Government policies, how ASI found its feet in a global environment, and the new realities of economic development such as big d...

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Váldodahkkit: Prabha Ray, Himanshu, Yadav, Ajay
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description The book presents the challenges faced by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the first two and a half decades after Indian independence. It looks at the shifts in Government policies, how ASI found its feet in a global environment, and the new realities of economic development such as big dam constructions that invariably resulted in the submergence of archaeological sites. Based on unpublished archival data, this book highlights the contributions of the longest-serving Director-General Amalananda Ghosh and members of his staff. It thus provides a corrective to the histories of archaeology that describe the policies of the post-1947 ASI as a continuation of colonial archaeologists such as Mortimer Wheeler, who was appointed Director-General at the cusp of Indian independence in 1944 by the British. The book will be indispensable to researchers and scholars of history, heritage studies and archaeology, and South Asian studies. It will also be of appeal to those interested in the history of archaeology and the development of the discipline in India.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1632082025-07-31T12:25:47Z Chapter Amalananda Ghosh as Director-General (1953–68) Prabha Ray, Himanshu Yadav, Ajay Ahichchhatra archaeological museum National Museum Temple Survey Project Rangoon thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies The book presents the challenges faced by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the first two and a half decades after Indian independence. It looks at the shifts in Government policies, how ASI found its feet in a global environment, and the new realities of economic development such as big dam constructions that invariably resulted in the submergence of archaeological sites. Based on unpublished archival data, this book highlights the contributions of the longest-serving Director-General Amalananda Ghosh and members of his staff. It thus provides a corrective to the histories of archaeology that describe the policies of the post-1947 ASI as a continuation of colonial archaeologists such as Mortimer Wheeler, who was appointed Director-General at the cusp of Indian independence in 1944 by the British. The book will be indispensable to researchers and scholars of history, heritage studies and archaeology, and South Asian studies. It will also be of appeal to those interested in the history of archaeology and the development of the discipline in India. 2025-07-29T20:21:16Z 2025-07-29T20:21:16Z 2025-07-28T13:51:44Z 2025 chapter ONIX_20250728T152256_9781003607410_13 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104444 9781003607410 9781041002581 9781003863595 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163208 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104444/1/9781003607410_10.4324_9781003607410-3.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104444/1/9781003607410_10.4324_9781003607410-3.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge India 10.4324/9781003607410-3 10.4324/9781003607410-3 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Indian Archaeology After Independence 9781003607410 9781041002581 9781003863595 Routledge India 50 - 76 London open access
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