Covering Five Millennia of Indian History
Dipsikha Acharya
HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY: ESSAYS ON INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EARLY INDIA by By Krishna Mohan Shrimali Manohar Books, New Delhi, 2924, 545 pp., INR 2995.00
October 2024, volume 48, No 10

History, Archaeology and Ideology: Essays on Intellectual and Social History of Early India is a collection of sixteen essays pertaining approximately to five millennia of Indian history. Krishna Mohan Shrimali has compiled this anthology based on his speeches/writings that he started conceiving in the late 1990s. The essays are categorized into four sections, viz., ‘Intellectual History and Heritage Management’, ‘Revitalising Indian Archaeology’, ‘Historians and Ideology’, and ‘Social History: Reflections on Conceptual Issues’. As a whole, the significance of the book lies in its well-structured thoughts as reflected in early Indian sources and its impeccable implication in the present socio-political scenario.

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