Professor K. Paddayya Felicitation Volume

[Hemant Dave]

Dear List,

We are happy to announce the felicitation volume honouring Prof. K. Paddayya, former Director of Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute, Pune, from Aryan Books International, here. 

History has become a very important site of public discourse in more recent times. Dull narrative of events, inventory of dates and great heroes are passé, and so are the facile deterministic models of history writings. Twenty-one research articles in this book presented to one of the foremost archaeologists of our times, Padma Shri Professor K. Paddayya, looks at Indian history from a cross-disciplinary and pluralistic perspective. From the dynamics of hunter-gathering cultures to self-sufficient economies, from Harappan civilisation to concepts of “rural” and “urban” in mediaeval historical contexts, from second urbanisation, cities, ports, and long distance trade to megalithic settlements and funerary practices, from challenging the opinion that Ayodhyā was not a real city to understanding the political nuances of how heritage – tangible and intangible – is constructed, this book takes on many important issues like that of curation of  heritage, archaeological theory and praxis, meanings and contexts of rock art and terracotta sculptures, and morphological study of Cercopithecidae remains from Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Sri Lanka. The new data, fresh interpretations, and engaging positions offered in this book make it an important contribution to the South Asian past.

With best wishes for Diwali.

V. Selvakumar, S. K. Aruni, Hemant Dave

The content of the volume:

Foreword                    

Preface                      

Professor Katragadda Paddayya                    
 1. Introduction: Facets of South Asian Past from Pluralistic Perspectives  
V. Selvakumar, S.K. Aruni and Hemant Dave

2. Celt Grinding Sites in Raichur: The Economy of Dolerite Tool Production in Southern Neolithic Culture
R. Arjun

3. Rise of Early Urban Centres in Karnataka: an Appraisal

S.K. Aruni

4. Re-thinking Heritage: Creating a New Sense of the Past?    
Bishnupriya Basak

5. Old World links of Ancient Tamizhakam as revealed through Pattanam Archaeological Evidence   102
P. J. Cherian

6. Funerary Practices through the Ages in Tamil Nadu: A Study of Texts, Traditions and Burials        
S.B. Darsana

7. Apropos of Ayodhyā
Hemant Dave

8. Conceptualising ‘Rural’: Linkages, Settlement Hierarchy and urbanization in the Early Medieval Shorapur-Doab  
Suchi Dayal

9. Urbanization in Coastal West Bengal

Kaushik Gangopadhyay

10. The Curation of a National Archaeological Heritage: With Notes from the National Museum, New Delhi
Sudeshna Guha

11. Looking beyond the Stone Structures of the Iron Age–Early Historic Burials      
Smirti Haricharan

12. Rethinking Northeast Indian Prehistory: Reappraisal to an Old Problem  
Tiatoshi Jamir, Marco Mitri and Tilok Thakuria

13. Archaeological Perceptions and Practices: Viewing a Harappan Object Over Time      
Jaya Menon

14. Problems and Prospects of Management of Prehistoric Sites in India with a Focus on Odisha
Debasis Kumar Mondal and Ranjana Ray

15. Taking the Middle Path: Understanding the ‘Early’ Middle Palaeolithic of South Asia and Its Relationship with the preceding Late Acheulean    

Yezad Pardiwalla and Parth R. Chauhan

16. ‘Etched’, ‘Bleached’ or ‘Decorated’ Carnelian Beads? A Reassessment of the Terminology of a Special Category of Agate-Carnelian Beads from the Harappan Civilization        
V.N. Prabhakar

17. Rock Paintings at Wyndham Falls, Mirzapur Vindhyas, Uttar Pradesh
Ajay Pratap, Anand P. Pathak, Rajeev Pratap, Nawal Kumar and Ruman Banerjee

18. Molars of Tropical Rainforests: Lingual-Labial Axis of Cercopithecidae Molars as an Index of Ecologies, Dietary Patterns, and Species Overlap during Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sri Lanka
Kalangi Rodrigo and Wijerathne Bohingamuwa

19. Issues in the Meaning and Identification of Archaeological Cultures        
V. Selvakumar

 20. Early Historic Terracotta of West Bengal: An Overview        
Gautam Sengupta

21. Shifting Time Frames: From Deep History to Archaeology of the Contemporary Past    
Supriya Varma

22. Archaeological Investigations in the Lower Tungabhadra Region of Andhra Pradesh    
P.C. Venkatasubbaiah

Hemant Dave, Ph.D. (Pune)

Professor

Department of History

Sardar Patel University

Vallabh Vidyanagar 

Gujarat – 388120

India

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[Siddharth Wakankar]

Heart felt congratulations on this commendable academic treat.

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