Inscriptions of nature (Record no. 61809)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781421438740
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Brijwasi Book Distributors
Distributor address : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi
Bill Number : BW/00018
Bill Date ; 26/05/2024
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 934.3 CHA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chakrabarti, Pratik.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Inscriptions of nature
Remainder of title : geology and the naturalization of antiquity.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Pratik Chakrabarti.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Baltimore
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : John Hopkins University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2020.
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Extent xii,263p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 4098
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Winner of the BSHS Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science, Shortlisted for the Pfizer Award for an Outstanding Book in the History of Science by the History of Science Society<br/><br/>In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging―often for sewage, transport, or minerals―revealed human remains. Other times, archaeological excavation of ancient cities unearthed prehistoric fossils, while excavations for irrigation canals revealed buried cities. Concurrently, geologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, and missionaries were also digging into ancient texts and genealogies and delving into the lives and bodies of indigenous populations, their myths, legends, and pasts. One pursuit was intertwined with another in this encounter with the earth and its inhabitants―past, present, and future.<br/><br/>In Inscriptions of Nature, Pratik Chakrabarti argues that, in both the real and the metaphorical digging of the earth, the deep history of nature, landscape, and people became indelibly inscribed in the study and imagination of antiquity. The first book to situate deep history as an expression of political, economic, and cultural power, this volume shows that it is complicit in the European and colonial appropriation of global nature, commodities, temporalities, and myths. The book also provides a new interpretation of the relationship between nature and history. Arguing that the deep history of the earth became pervasive within historical imaginations of monuments, communities, and territories in the nineteenth century, Chakrabarti studies these processes in the Indian subcontinent, from the banks of the Yamuna and Ganga rivers to the Himalayas to the deep ravines and forests of central India. He also examines associated themes of Hindu antiquarianism, sacred geographies, and tribal aboriginality.<br/><br/>Based on extensive archival research, the book provides insights into state formation, mining of natural resources, and the creation of national topographies. Driven by the geological imagination of India as well as its landscape, people, past, and destiny, Inscriptions of Nature reveals how human evolution, myths, aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined Indian antiquity.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geology
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Naturalization
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Antiquity Nature
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Personal name Pratik Chakrabarti.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 05/06/2024 Brijwasi Book Distributors 4098.00 2 1 934.3 CHA 30210 29/11/2026 04/10/2026 04/10/2026 05/06/2024 Books
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