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The collection of twenty one articles by B.S.Harishankar contemplates recent approaches on various aspects of India’s cultural past in a global context. The work discusses intervention by colonial and post colonial groups on our archaeology, anthropology and historiography and the changing dimensions of our social and cultural perspectives. The essays have been grouped thematically in four sections comprehending various themes. It includes dimensions of cultural terrorism, eastern and western nationalisms, Aryan issues, imperial census, colonial castes, dalit and subaltern issues, Ramayana, Mahabharata and cultural geography, Abhinava Gupta’s legacy and Kashmir’s connectivity with greater India, traditional knowledge systems, classical Tamil and the greater Indian tradition, global alignment between Marxism and church, crusades and its current impact on west Asia and Europe, Indo Jewish fraternity, foreign interventions at Pattanam and Keezhadi archaeological sites, and espionage in global universities by left and Wahabbi groups. B.S.Harishankar is an archaeologist historian and has authored seven books.
Dr.B.S.Hari Shankar did his PhD from Pune University in 1999 and completed ?two Post doctoral? studies? under two research? fellowship programmes. The first Post doctoral? was awarded? in 2002 ?under ?ICHR and completed at? ??Kerala University. In 2015, he was awarded the Kali Charan Puri Fellowship? for social Sciences in Archaeology ?for his second Post doctoral research. He was Assistant Director (1999-2002) ?of Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology in New Delhi. Dr. Harishankar ?was research associate at Venetian Academy of Indian Studies, Italy . He also ? worked in the ICHR National Project of Atlas of Indus ?Sarasvati Civilization under major archaeologists from India and Pakistan He has participated in archaeological excavations under Kerala State Government and Archaeological Survey of India. He has?ten ?works in archaeology and history?to his credit including one in Malayalam.?Works include?Art and Archaeology of India (2003), ?An introduction to Archaeology and Heritage Management?(2013), ?Imprints of the Past-an archaeological outline of Northeast India(2015)?Pattanam: Constructs, Contexts and Interventions(2017).?The Battle for India (2017),?Charithrathile Mahabharatham Reethisastravum Nilapaadukalum? (2018? -Malayalam) ,?Keezhadi?Racial Stratagem and Divisive Identities?( 2019).?Cultural Terrorism :Conflicts and Debates on Cultural Pasts,?Beyond Rampage : West Asian Contacts with Malabar and Khilafat?, and?The Other as Hostile.??Dr.Harishankar ?was also assistant editor of Puratattva , journal of Indian Archaeology during 1993-95.. He ?has also published? research papers in various journals including in the ?British Archaeological Reports at Oxford.?
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