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Author Chakrabarti, Pratik, author.

Title Inscriptions of nature : geology and the naturalization of antiquity / Pratik Chakrabarti
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction. Past unlimited -- The canal of Zabita Khan : the nature of history -- Ancient alluviums : landscapes of antiquity -- Mythic pasts and naturalized histories : the deep history of sacred geography -- Remnants of the race : geology and the naturalization of human antiquity -- The other side of Tethys : Gondwana and the geology of primitivism -- Conclusion: The new deep history
Summary "This theoretical book is a work of history and of cultural studies. Through analyses of Gondwana, India, and its geological, anthropological, and cultural histories, the book describes how human evolution, mythological geographies, tribal aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined India's antiquity"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Geology -- Methodology
Archaeological geology -- India -- Gondwana
Antiquities
Archaeological geology
Ecology
Geology -- Methodology
Historical geography
Historiography
SUBJECT India -- Historiography
Gondwana (India) -- Antiquities
Gondwana (India) -- Environmental conditions
Gondwana (India) -- Historical geography
Subject India
India -- Gondwana
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421438757
1421438755