In this seminar, Dr Guha critiques the ‘archaeology of origins’, which is on the rise within South Asia, and considers the practices and visual documents of archaeology as artefacts of history.

Dr Sudeshna Guha - Looking into 'Indian' pasts: archeology, history and ways of seeing

Audio files of the weekly seminars held at the Centre of South Asian Studies, as well as of other events in the Centre's academic programme.

Professor Robert Travers - 'A historian as petitioner: Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba'i and the late Mughal context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century India'

Dr Sudeshna Guha - Looking into 'Indian' pasts: archeology, history and ways of seeing

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