It also outlines the author's personal background and early academic roots, hoping to give an idea of the types of students who were drawn to archaeology in India in its early phase. There are also tes on his professional experience in the Indian universities he has served. It should be possible to assess on the basis of these tes the general state of affairs in the historical studies section of the Indian universities. On the second level, this book offers a detailed review of the development of various ideas, research themes and field-projects in Indian archaeology over the last fifty years with special reference to the author's own work. Indian archaeological writings have seldom been concerned with the historiography of ideas and research themes, and from this point of view the present book may be considered a reasonably elaborate examination of how archaeology has developed as an academic discipline in the Indian university framework.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Aryan Books International
ISBN-10
8173054290
ISBN-13
9788173054297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
116031620
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology
Type
Textbook
Author
Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New Delhi
Date of Publication
30/05/2012
Country of Publication
India
Author Biography
Dilip K. Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor of South Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University and in fact, the first person to hold a personal chair in the field of ancient Indian history and archaeology at this university. He was awarded Honorary D. Litt. by the M.J.P. University, Bareilly, and S.C. Chakrabarti medal by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata. He received Gurudev Ranade book prize of the Indian Archaeological Society for his book The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology and was made Honorary Fellow of the International Association for Asian Heritage (Sri Lanka).