Bureaucratic Archaeology - State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India

About the author

Ashish Avikunthak is an Associate Professor of Film/Media at the Harrington School of Communication and Media, the University of Rhode Island. He is a filmmaker and a cultural anthropologist. His scholarly works have been published in the Journal of Social Archaeology, Journal of Material Culture, Contributions to Indian Sociology and The Indian Economic and Social History Review among other publications. He has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and before coming to URI, he had taught at Yale University.

Product details

• Authors: Ashish Avikunthak, Ashish (University of Rhode Island) Avikunthak
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2022
• EAN: 9781316512395
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51239-5
• No. of pages: 358
• Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, General & world history, Politics & government, Politics and government, Sociology & anthropology, General and world history, Central / national / federal government policies, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Sociology and anthropology, Central government policies