Ebook: A History of India through 75 Objects

Through a selection of things from prehistoric to modern-day India, this book encourages the appreciation of the complexity of History. It illustrates the logic of expecting many histories of a particular phenomenon and conveys the merit of evaluating the historical linkages we construct. Histories through objects, as it demonstrates, bring us to see the vast terrain of unknowns. They present the immense value of collections and collecting practices for nurturing historical scholarship. The histories in the book convey the inordinate power of object worlds to analyse schemes of classification, acts of historicizing and projects of history- and heritage-making. In presenting the shifting valuation of things over time, they guide readers to see that a history is always in the making.