@article{ref1,
title="The Archaeological Survey of India and Communal Violence in Post-independence India",
journal="International journal of heritage studies",
year="2008",
author="Johnson-Roehr, Susan",
volume="14",
number="6",
pages="506-523",
abstract="This article argues that that the discipline of archaeology as practised by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) significantly contributed to communal violence in post-Independence India. The essay investigates several legacies handed down from the colonial ASI to the post-Independence ASI, with a goal of explaining the contribution of archaeology to the ongoing disturbances at Ayodhyā in Uttar Pradesh. The colonial ASI was marked by four characteristics: it was a monument-based archaeology based on geographical surveys, literary traditions and Orientalist scholarship. These four characteristics combined to form a traditionalist, location-driven excavation agenda that privileged specific holy sites in the post-Partition era, sustaining the violent disagreements between Hindu and Islamic populations of India and Pakistan.<p />",
language="",
issn="1352-7258",
doi="10.1080/13527250802503266",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527250802503266"
}