![]() Richards prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India. Lahiri won the 2013 Infosys Prize in the humanities for her contribution towards the integration of archaeological knowledge with the historical understanding of India from the earliest times. Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University. The lecture will also offer some possible solutions on how India’s heriage can be made to matter more than it does at present. This lecture will look at the challenges and pressures on this heritage as a consequennce of developments arising from the impact of accelerated industrialization and mega projects, the antiquity trade protected by mafias of various kinds, the state of government-funded institutions, and the adjudication of legal disputes relating to monuments. ![]() India’s archaeological heritage has continued to grow in many different ways since independence, even as the monuments and relics, sites and sculpture remain vulnerable and compromised. ![]()
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