TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - The Archaeological Survey of India and Communal Violence in Post-independence India
JO  - International journal of heritage studies
A1  - Johnson-Roehr, Susan
SP  - 506
EP  - 523
VL  - 14
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1352-7258
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527250802503266
ID  - ref1
ER  -