Partition / Politics: Joining a civilisation (ASI)

Nayanjot Lahiri
January 04, 2008
First Published: 19:41 IST(4/1/2008)
Last Updated: 19:52 IST(4/1/2008)
		
New Delhi’s National Museum houses an outstanding Harappan gallery, one 
that unfailingly attracts visitors. Not many, though, stop to wonder 
about the objects from Mohenjodaro and Harappa displayed there. If India 
— as we have been told — had lost her Indus heritage because most Indus 
sites in 1947 fell within the national boundaries of Pakistan, how has 
she retained such a superb collection of Indus artefacts from those 
‘lost’ cities?

An answer to this can be excavated out of the treasure trove of files in 
the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). This is because the ASI was 
centrally involved in tortuous negotiations through which undivided 
India’s past was partitioned.

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