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Código del Artículo: IDE155

por Upinder Singh

Hardcover (Edición: 2004)

Permanent Black
ISBN 81-7824-088-2

Tamaño: 8.8" X 5.8"
Páginas: 400 (B & W Illus: 27)
630 gms

Precio: Euro 34.30

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From the Jacket:

This book breaks colonial archaeology down into its specific constituents and examines the ideas, impulses, tensions, and individual contributions that comprised early studies of India's ancient past. It focuses, at the outset, on the ideas and work of Alexander of the Archeological Survey of India in 1871. It also examines the contribution of Cunningham's assistants, Beglar and Carlleyle.

It then looks at a number of related issues - the different definitions of archaeological research; the conflict between field archaeologists and architectural scholars; the debate over whether antiquities should be left in situ or removed to museums; the different approaches and initiatives towards the conversion of historical monuments.

It also reconstructs the history of certain important Buddhist sites - Bodh Gaya, Sanchi, and Bharhut - during the second half of the nineteenth century, while giving a detailed account of the life - history of the site of Amaravati.

Finally, it looks at the contribution made by Indian scholars to the antiquarian and archaeological projects, and at the interaction between the colonial government and the Indian prince vis-o-vis the conservation of historical monuments.

This book is written as much for the general reader interested in India's antiquity and its pioneering archaeologists, as for students of the history of archaeology, colonialism, and constructions of the past.

About the Author:

Upinder Singh teaches ancient history at St Stephen's College, Delhi. She is the author of Kings, Brahmanas and Temples in Orissa: An Epigraphic Study, AD 300-1147 (1994); Ancient Delhi (1999); and a book for children, Mysteries of the Past: Archaeological Sites in India (2002). Her scholars articles have appeared in World Archaeology, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, The Indian Historical Review, Man and Environment, and South Asian Studies.

CONTENTS

	Illustrations	ix
	Abbreviations	xi
	Acknowledgements	xii
	Preface	xiii
1	Form Antiquarianism to Archaeology	1
	The Surveyors	2
	The Antiquarians	6
	The Adventurers	17
	Early Archaeological Writings	21
2	Alexander Cunningham: Engineer and Antiquarian	23
	Cunningham's Career: A Sketch	24
	Cunningham and Prinsep	25
	Early Numismatic Writings	28
	The Journey to the Sources of Punjab's Rivers	30
	More Journeys to Remote Places: Ladakh	32
	The Temples of Kashmir	34
	On the Trail of Chinese Pilgrims	36
	Ladakh: Physical, Statistical, and Historical	40
	The Bhilsa Topes	44
3	The First Archaeological Survey	53
	The Background	53
	The Proposal	57
	Bihar and the North-Western Provinces 1861-2	60
	The North-Western Provinces 1862-3	66
	The Punjab 1863-4	70
	Rajputana and Malwa 1864-5	73
	The Suspension of the Archaeological Survey	75
4	Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India	77
	A New Initiative	79
	'Investigating, Describing, Protecting…'	81
	Cunningham's Plan of Action	83
	Report for the Year 1871-2	85
	The Punjab and Yusufzai 1872-3	92
	The Central Provinces 1873-4 and 1874-5	100
	Bundelkhand and Malwa 1874-5 and 1876-7	102
	Tours in the Gangetic Provinces 1875-6 and 1877-8	104
	Tour in the Punjab 1878-9	107
	Tour in Bihar and Bengal 1879-80	111
	Tours in North and South Bihar 1880-1	112
	Tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab 1881-2	114
	Tour in Eastern Rajputana 1882-3	115
	Bundelkhand and Rewa (1883-4), and Rewa, Bundelkhand, Malwa, and Gwalior (1884-5)	117
	Other Writings	119
	The Promotion of Epigraphic Research	124
	Photographic Documentation	127
	The Director General and the Government	128
	Cunningham and His Contemporaries	131
5	J.D.M. Beglar: Enthusiastic Apprentice	135
	Beglar's Survey of Delhi 1871-2	137
	Tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa 1871-2	141
	Tour through the Bengal Provinces 1872-3	143
	Tour in the Central Provinces 1873-4	148
	Tour in the South-Eastern Provinces 1874-6	150
	The Reorganization of the Survey and the Beglar-Burgess Conflict	153
6	A.C.L. Carlleyle: Amateur Prehistorian	158
	Report on Agra	159
	The Rajputana Tour	161
	Tours in the Central Doab and Gorakhpur 1874-6	166
	Further Explorations in the Gorakhpur, Saran and Ghazipur district 1875-7	169
	More Tours in Gorakhpur, Saran and Ghazipur Districts, 1877-80	172
	Discoveries, and a Time of Trouble	175
	AN Estimate: A Rediscovery	181
7	The Description and Care of Monuments	184
	Early Conservation Measures	185
	James Burgess and the Archaeological Surveys of Western and Southern India	188
	H.H. Cole: Curator of Ancient Monuments	199
	In situ Preservation versus the Removal of Antiquities to Museums	212
	Cunningham and Conservation	215
	The Restoration of the Bodh Gaya Temple	218
	Sanchi	230
	The Bharhut Stupa	239
	Postscript	247
8	The Dismembering of the Amaravati Stupa	249
	The Discovery of Amaravati and the First Documentation	250
	The 'Elliot Marbles'	257
	James Fergusson and the 'Elliot Marbles'	260
	Boswell's Report	263
	Sewell Offers His Services	265
	Sewell's Operations	267
	Horsfall Steps In	271
	Burgess versus Cole	274
	Cole's Recommendations	279
	Cunningham's Verdict	283
	The Removal of the Amaravati Sculptures to the Madras Museum	284
	Epilogue	286
9	The 'Ignorant Natives' and Archaeological Research	290
	Ancient Remains in the Princely States	292
	The Begum of Bhopal and her History	296
	Other Princely States	299
	The Contribution of Indian Scholars	305
	Ram Raz: The First Modern Indian Architectural Scholar	308
	The Debate on 'Native' Involvement in the Archaeological Survey	312
	P.C. Mukharji: Archeologist	316
	Rajendralala Mitra	322
	Other Contributions	334
10	Archaeology, Sites, and Monuments in Nineteenth-century India	337
	Assessing the Cunningham Era of India Archaeology	341
	The Modern History of Ancient Sites and Monuments	349
	Bibliography	355
	Index	371