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She has edited The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2000) and an issue of World Archaeology entitled The Archaeology of Hinduism’ (2004). Her books include The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (1992), Finding Forgotten Cities (2005), Marshalling the Past -Ancient India and its Modern Histories (2012), Ashoka in Ancient India (2015) and Monuments Matter: India’s Archaeological Heritage Since Independence (2017). 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. Lahiri Nayanjot, 2000, Archaeology and Identity in Colonial India, http://. Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University. Vinay Shrivastava has participated in more than 55 National Seminars. 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. Spanning nearly a century, this is a tale.

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. This book interleaves the history of post- Independence archaeology in India with the life and times of Madhukar Narhar Deshpande (1920-2008), a leading Indian archaeologist who went on to become the director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India.