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Understanding the discovery of the Harappan Civilization | Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri | ASC IITGN

Nayanjot Lahiri is Professor of History at Ashoka University. She is author of Pre-Ahom Assam(1991), The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (1992), Finding Forgotten Cities- How the Indus Civilization was Discovered (2005), Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and its Modern Histories (2012) Ashoka in Ancient India (2015), Monuments Matter: India’s Archaeological Heritage Since Independence (2017), Time Pieces – A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ancient India (2018) and Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M.N. Deshpande (2021). She is co-author of Copper and its Alloys in Ancient India (1996), editor of The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2000), and co-editor of Ancient India: New Research (2009), Buddhism in Asia - Revival and Reinvention (2016)). She won the Infosys Prize 2013 in the Humanities-Archaeology. Her book Ashoka in Ancient India was awarded the 2016 John F. Richards Prize by the American Historical Association for the best book in South Asian history. Are Archaeological Discoveries like Scientific Discoveries? Understanding the discovery of the Harappan Civilization How do great discoveries take place? This presentation aims to looks at a 1924 discovery – that of the Indus Civilization – in order to understand how it can be juxtaposed with the literature on how scientific discoveries take place. I hope to reveal that there is much that fits in with the larger pattern of histories of innovation and discovery just as there are principles that gird the pattern of archaeological discoveries that are peculiar to it.