Museum Archaeologies and Heritage Histories: Thinking Through Things
We aim to explore the manner in which notions of cultural heritage are created and nurtured through the scholarship and governance of archaeology with specific references to the archaeologies of heritage-making within post-colonial South Asia.
The current research is on histories of archaeological collections, museums, and heritage-making in South Asia. We are also working towards an exhibition, to be held in 2023, on the histories of 19th-century architectural and archaeological photography in India. Additionally, we have an ongoing collaborative project on aspects of the ethnographies of frontier states, with a case study on Sikkim.
A book on histories of objects and historiographies of India, simply titled "A History of India through 75 Objects", is expected to be published in November 2022.