Download or read book Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India written by Daniel Michon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which past cultures have been used to shape colonial and postcolonial cultural identities. It provides a theoretical framework to understand these processes, and offers illustrative case studies in which the agency of ancient peoples, rather than the desires of antiquarians and archaeologists, is brought to the fore.