Nation First: Essays in the Politics of Ancient Indian Studies

Nation First: Essays in the Politics of Ancient Indian Studies is a book by DK Chakrabarti.

• Preface vii 1. Introduction: Does Nation Matter in the

• 1 Current Ancient Historical and Archaeological Studies in India?

• 2. Comptroller and Auditor General?s Report 40 on Indian Museum, Victoria Memorial, Asiatic Society, National Library and Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati: How Cultural Institutions Function in Modern India?

• 3. Who Owns the Indian Past? The Case of the Indus Civilization

• 4. Whose Past and Which Past? The Warring 76 Factions of the Ancient Indian Historical Research

• 5. The Study of Ancient India: Some Historical and 97 National Considerations
• 6. Power, Politics and Ariya Mayai (?Aryan Illusion?) 115 in the Study of Indian History
• 7. Amused by Hinduism: The Ancient South Asian 136 World by J.M. Kenoyer and Kimberley Heuston
• 8. A Colour-coded Perception of Scholarship? 144 Rita P. Wright and the Study of the Indus Civilization
• 9. Cultural Unity of India: The Evidence of 157 Archaeology and Historical Geography
• 10. Climate in the Indus Studies: Comments on 173 L. Giosan et al. (2012), Fluvial Landscapes of the Harappan Civilization, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Environmental Sciences
• 11. Upinder Singh (ed.), Rethinking Early 185 Mediaeval India, a Reader, Delhi, 2011: Oxford University Press
• 12. R.W. Law, Inter-regional Interaction and 191 Urbanism in the Ancient Indus Valley, a Geologic Provenience Study of Harappan Rock and Mineral Assemblage, Kyoto, 2011: Research Institute for Humanities and Nature
• 13. Michel Danino, The Lost River, on the Trail of 197 the Sarasvati, Delhi, 2010: Penguin Books
• 14. K.T.S. Sarao, The Decline of Buddhism in 202 India, a Fresh Perspective, Delhi, 2012: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
• 15. Virchand Dharamsey, Bhagwanlal Indraji, 207 the First Indian Archaeologist: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of the Past, Vadodara, 2012: Darshak Itihas Nidhi
• 16. Newspaper Columns 212 16.1. It is the Archaeology, Stupid ! 16.2. The West Knows Best? 16.3. From Indus to India Appendix 225 The Comptroller and Auditor General?s (CAG) ?Performance Audit? of the Archaeological Survey of India Index 307