A History of India through 75 Objects

With a curation of objects from the prehistoric ages through twenty-first century India, Sudeshna Guha provides a panoramic view of the rich histories of the subcontinent. The incisive essays in this collection detail not just the objects but the histories of their reception: examining how changing times and attitudes cast their shadow on the ways in which the past is interpreted and narrated. In doing so, A History of India through 75 Objects inspires us to interrogate our own notions of a knowable past and fixed national history. Teeming with thought-provoking insights and surprising anecdotes, the essays instill a sense of wonder about the continuous processes by which histories are constructed.

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A History of India through 75 Objects

With a curation of objects from the prehistoric ages through twenty-first century India, Sudeshna Guha provides a panoramic view of the rich histories of the subcontinent. The incisive essays in this collection detail not just the objects but the histories of their reception: examining how changing times and attitudes cast their shadow on the ways in which the past is interpreted and narrated. In doing so, A History of India through 75 Objects inspires us to interrogate our own notions of a knowable past and fixed national history. Teeming with thought-provoking insights and surprising anecdotes, the essays instill a sense of wonder about the continuous processes by which histories are constructed.

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A History of India through 75 Objects

A History of India through 75 Objects

by Sudeshna Guha
A History of India through 75 Objects

A History of India through 75 Objects

by Sudeshna Guha

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With a curation of objects from the prehistoric ages through twenty-first century India, Sudeshna Guha provides a panoramic view of the rich histories of the subcontinent. The incisive essays in this collection detail not just the objects but the histories of their reception: examining how changing times and attitudes cast their shadow on the ways in which the past is interpreted and narrated. In doing so, A History of India through 75 Objects inspires us to interrogate our own notions of a knowable past and fixed national history. Teeming with thought-provoking insights and surprising anecdotes, the essays instill a sense of wonder about the continuous processes by which histories are constructed.


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ISBN-13: 9789350099032
Publisher: Hachette India
Publication date: 12/19/2022
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
File size: 20 MB
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About the Author

Sudeshna Guha is currently a professor in the department of History and Archaeology at Shiv Nadar University; India. She holds a Ph.D. in archaeology and has a long curatorial and teaching career at the
University of Cambridge. She has built upon the scholarship of visual anthropology and ethnographies of material studies for analysing histories of archaeology and is at present developing research on histories of museums; collections and curatorial practices within South Asia. She has published widely; also on histories of heritage; and is the editor and contributor of The Marshall Albums: Photography and Archaeology (Mapin/Alkazi Collection of Photography; 2011); and author of Artefacts of History: Archaeology; Historiography and Indian Pasts (Sage 2015).

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