MARC details
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01967nam a22002177a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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JGU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20221115160119.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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221115b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780190131753 |
| Qualifying information |
hbk. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
JGU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The world of India's first archaeologist : |
| Remainder of title |
letters from Alexander Cunningham to J D M Beglar / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Upinder Singh. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Alexander Cunningham, India's first professional archaeologist, became the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1871. This volume contains a collection of 193 letters he wrote between 1871 and 1888 to his Archaeological Assistant, J. D. M. Beglar. The letters, published here for the first time, edited and with an introduction by Upinder Singh, offer exciting, new insights into Cunningham's life and career, telling the story of the birth of Indian archaeology and some of its greatest discoveries in real time, in Cunningham's own words. The letters provide a unique perspective on the construction of Indian history in the nineteenth century. They reveal the evolution of Cunningham's ideas and methods, his interventions in debates on conservation and restoration, and his interactions with textual scholars in India and Europe. They throw light on the place of archaeology in the politics of colonial India, the role of the princely states, and the growing rivalry between Indians and Europeans over the right to interpret India's past. They also show the friendship between Cunningham and Beglar, based on a shared passion for archaeology. In doing all this, these letters bring alive the history of Indian archaeology in its crucial, formative phase."-- |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cunningham, Alexander, Sir, |
| Chronological subdivision |
1814-1893 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1637728 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Archaeology |
| 9 (RLIN) |
58812 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Singh, Upinder, |
| Relator term |
editor |
| 9 (RLIN) |
29285 |
