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Bureau of Education India Publication No. 66 Archaeology in India

1950

The chapters in the book have been contributed by the officers of the Department of Archaeology attached to the Ministry of Education. [...] In 1848 Alexander.. published a paper in the Journal of the Calcutta Society in which he urged that the Government of India should help in the preservation of ancient monuments of India by the appointment of a suitable officer at Government expense who should have a thorough knowledge of the religions and arts of India and should also be an epigraphist as well as a numismatist. [...] In 1870 under the Viceroyalty of Lord Mayo the Government of India sanctioned the post of a Director General of Archaeological Survey of India and offered it to Cunningham. [...] Of his other numerous publications mention must.be made of the first volume of the Corpus InsoriptionumTHE STORY OF INDIAN AROHAEOLOGY 3 Indicarum containing the inscriptions of Atoka (1877) the Ancient Geography of India I Buddhist period (1871) the Stapa of Bharhut (1879) and the Book of Indian Bras (1884). [...] ' The Secretary of State accepted these proposals and sanctioned towards the end of 190] the revival of the post of the Director General of Archaeology in India.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
288
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142350
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-viii unknown view
Chapter I. The Story of Indian Archaeology
1-16 N.P. Chakravarti view
Chapter II. Exploration and Excavations
17-76 A. Ghosh view
Chapter III. Stopa and Temple Architecture
77-108 unknown view
Chapter IV. Indo-Islamc Architecture
109-132 unknown view
Chapter V. Scolptitre and Painting
133-154 V.S. Agrawala view
Chapter VI. Conservation
155-170 B.B. Lal view
Chapter VII. Archaeological Museums
171-182 K.N. Puri view
Chapter VIII. Epigraphical Research
183-196 Mohd Husain view
Chapter IX. Greater India
197-208 V.S. Agrawala view
Index
209-219 unknown view
Plates
i-lxi unknown view

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