| Description |
1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
List of Images and Tables -- Among Independent Indias Young Archaeologists -- A Life in Public Archaeology -- The Archaeologist and the Prime Minister -- Director General Deshpande -- The Archaeologist and the Environmentalist -- Retirement and After -- References -- Archaeologys Contribution to History in Recent Times -- Some Aspects of Folk Religion in the Konkana and Desh Regions of Maharashtra -- The Siva Temple at Bhojpur -- From Gol Gumbad to Konark -- Problems of Conservation of Cultural Property in India -- Gol Gumbad Bijapur -- Qutb Minar -- Konark Sun Temple -- Kṛṣṇa Legend in the Jain Canonical Literature -- Bahal 19523 -- Two Copper Coins of the Chola King Rajaraja I -- Important Epigraphical Records from the Chaitya Cave -- Ajanta Ellora Thanala and Tabo -- Their Historical Perspective -- A Walk through the Caves of Ellora -- The Himalayan Ajanta -- Buddhist Group of Thanala Caves -- Archaeology Ethnography and History -- Archaeologists and Ascetics -- The Ekalavya of Archaeology -- Colleague and LifeLong Friend -- Centenarian Harijansevak -- A Single Word That Changed My Life -- Reaching Out and Looking Back -- Experience of an Archaeologist -- Index -- Copyright |
| Summary |
"This book interleaves the history of post-Independence archaeology in India with the life and times of Madhukar Narhar Deshpande (1920-2008), a leading Indian archaeologist who went on to become the director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India. Spanning nearly a century, this is a tale about the circumstances which brought men like Deshpande to this career path; what it was like to grow up in a family devoted to India's freedom; the watershed moment that created a large cohort that was trained by Mortimer Wheeler, the doyen of British archaeology who headed the Archaeological Survey in the twilight years of the British Raj; the unknown conservation stories around the Gol Gumbad in Bijapur and the Qutb Minar in Delhi; the forgotten story of how the fabric of a historic Hindu shrine, the Badrinath temple, was saved; the chemistry shared by the prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the archaeologist, Deshpande at historic cave shrines like Ajanta and Ellora, and; the political and administrative challenges faced by director generals of archaeology. The story is told through a main character--Deshpande himself--some of whose writings have been included here. Equally, there are others who figure in the narrative as it reconstructs and recounts the story of Indian archaeology after 1947 through those lives as also through the institutional history of the Archaeological Survey and the processes that were central to the discoveries it made and the challenges it faced"--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 20, 2021) |
| Subject |
Deshpande, M. N. (Madhusudan Narhar), 1920-2008
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| SUBJECT |
Deshpande, M. N. (Madhusudan Narhar), 1920-2008 fast |
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Archaeologists -- India -- Biography
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Salvage archaeology -- India
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- India.
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Salvage archaeology
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Archaeologists
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064871
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Deshpande, M. N. (Madhusudan Narhar), 1920-2008.
Works. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780190993870 |
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0190993871 |
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9780190993863 |
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0190993863 |
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