The Battle for Ancient India : An Essay in the Sociopolitics of Indian Archaeology

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction I. The Theme II. The Author?s Own Approach and Beliefs III. The Idea of India as a Colonized Land throughout History 2. ?Sunrise? in the West: Different Strands of Indian Prehistoric and Proto-historic Studies I. The General Background II. The Theme of ?Sunrise in the West? III. Comments on Certain General Trends of Publications in Indian Prehistory and Protohistory 3. The Sociopolitics of the Indus Civilization Studies I. The Framework of the Ancient Indian Past before the Discovery II. The Discovery and the Early Hypotheses of the Excavators III. The Period between the Discovery and Associated Reports, and the Publication of Marshall?s Mohenjodaro Report in 1931: R.P. Chanda IV. The Formulation of the Dravidian Hypothesis: Suniti Kumar Chatterji V. Observations on Chanda and Chatterji VI. John Marshall?s ?Mohenjodaro and the Indus Civilization? (1931) VII. The Basic History of the Idea of Harappa-Vedic Relationship: B.N. Datta to P.V. Kane and Others VIII. More on the Dravidian Premise or the Question of the Dravidian Authorship of the Indus Civilization IX. The Current Politics of the Indus Civilization Studies 4. The Sociopolitics of Some Debates in Early Historic Archaeology I. The Literature on the NBP II. The Beginning of Writing III. The Role of Iron in the Second Urbanisation 5. Summary and Discussion Appendix Bibliography Index