TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakrabarti,Pratik
TI  - Inscriptions of nature: geology and the naturalization of antiquity 
SN  - 9781421438740
AV  - DS485.G647 C43 2020
U1  - 934.3 C349I 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Maryland
PB  - John Hopkins University Press
KW  - Archaeological geology
KW  - India
KW  - Gondwana
KW  - Geology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Gondwana (India)
KW  - Historical geography
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction. Past unlimited -- The canal of Zabita Khan : the nature of history -- Ancient alluviums : landscapes of antiquity -- Mythic pasts and naturalized histories : the deep history of sacred geography -- Remnants of the race : geology and the naturalization of human antiquity -- The other side of Tethys : Gondwana and the geology of primitivism -- Conclusion: The new deep history
N2  - "This theoretical book is a work of history and of cultural studies. Through analyses of Gondwana, India, and its geological, anthropological, and cultural histories, the book describes how human evolution, mythological geographies, tribal aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined India's antiquity"--
ER  -