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      The Return of the Buddha: Ancient Symbols for a New Nation

      Himanshu Prabha Ray

      This book traces the impact of archaeological discoveries in colonial India on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past and on the making of a public discourse around it. It also…

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      The Return of the Buddha: Ancient Symbols for a New Nation

      Himanshu Prabha Ray

      This book traces the impact of archaeological discoveries in colonial India on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past and on the making of a public discourse around it. It also…

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      Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections

      This book re-examines the archaeological material excavated in the region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and traces the link between archaeological work, histories of museum collections and related…

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      Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections

      This book re-examines the archaeological material excavated in the region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and traces the link between archaeological work, histories of museum collections and related…

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      Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia

      Himanshu Prabha Ray

      This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. The work underlines that relic and image worship were important features in…

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      Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia

      Himanshu Prabha Ray

      This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. The work underlines that relic and image worship were important features in…

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      Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History

      This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. The work…

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      Decolonising Heritage in South Asia: The Global, the National and the Transnational

      This book examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materializes through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It will…

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      Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History

      This book draws on research by archaeologists, numismatists and historians on the social and cultural construction of landscapes in India. It deals with the perception, use and representation of the…

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      The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape

      Himanshu Prabha Ray

      The Hindu Temple and Its Sacred Landscape explores Hinduism as it was practised in temples across the Indian subcontinent throughout history, highlighting the temple's significance as a marker of cultural…

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      The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World

      This book looks at the long cultural, ethnic and commercial links between the Indian subcontinent and maritime Southeast Asia in the pre-modern period. Through an analysis of archaeological and historical…

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      Recentering Southeast Asia

      This book assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19th and early 20th century in 'restructuring' the shared past of India and Southeast Asia.

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      The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World

      This book looks at the long cultural, ethnic and commercial links between the Indian subcontinent and maritime Southeast Asia in the pre-modern period. Through an analysis of archaeological and historical…

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      Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks across India and Southeast Asia

      Himanshu Prabha Ray

      This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It…

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      Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History

      This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. The work…

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      Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks Across India and Southeast Asia

      Himanshu Prabha Ray

      This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It…

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      Decolonising Heritage in South Asia: The Global, the National and the Transnational

      This book examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materializes through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It will…

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      The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia

      Himanshu Prabha Ray (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

      In this new archaeological study, Himanshu Prabha Ray looks at the maritime orientation of communities of the Indian subcontinent prior to European expansion. She uses archaeological data to reveal the…

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      The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia

      Himanshu Prabha Ray (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

      In this new archaeological study, Himanshu Prabha Ray looks at the maritime orientation of communities of the Indian subcontinent prior to European expansion. She uses archaeological data to reveal the…

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      The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples

      This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history, and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples…

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      Reimagining Asoka: Memory and History

      Through recent advances made in archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, this volume explores the material, social, and ideological aspects of Asoka’s reign. It also examines the making of the cultural memory…

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      The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples: Materiality, Social History and Practice

      This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history, and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples…

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      Colonial Archaeology in South Asia: The Legacy of Sir Mortimer Wheeler

      Himanshu Prabha Ray (Associate Professor, Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharial Nehru University, Associate Professor, Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharial Nehru University, au)

      This volume discusses larger issues relating to the practice and institutionalization of the discipline of archaeology under British rule and assesses the extent to which colonial intervention shaped the nascent…

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      Power, Presence and Space: South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context

      Patterns of ritual power, presence, and space are fundamentally connected to, and mirror, the societal and political power structures in which they are enacted.

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      Power, Presence and Space

      Patterns of ritual power, presence, and space are fundamentally connected to, and mirror, the societal and political power structures in which they are enacted.

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      The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE-8th century CE

      Susan Verma Mishra,Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India; Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany; Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

      This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of…

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      The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE-8th century CE

      Susan Verma Mishra,Himanshu Prabha Ray (Project Mausam, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India; Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Germany; Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)

      This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of…

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