This ebook uncovers practices surrounding acts of gathering, surveying, and antiquarianism in the course of British colonial rule in India. through studying those practices, this e-book strains the colonial stipulations of the construction of 'sources,' the forging of a brand new ancient approach, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India.
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