Archaeology of the Margins (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Selvakumar Veerasamy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Understanding India and its culture was a colonial enterprise that was initiated in 18th and 19th centuries. The notions concerning identities which were constructed during the colonial times have considerably influenced the interpretations of archaeological remains in several contexts, including the recently introduced DNA studies that...