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Problematizing The Normalized, Unsettling The Institutionalized: Thinking About The Reciprocity of Archaeology and History in Bengal (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Swadhin Sen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The disciplinary traditions of the practice of archaeology and history, formed in colonial Bengal, have developed specific normalcies. Despite the initial divergent trajectories and institutions, both disciplines have inherited and essentialized an entangled relationship, especially about the periods which are categorized as ‘historical’....