Cultural Continuity, Identity and Archaeological Practice in the Indian Context

This chapter examines cultural continuity in the practice of Indian archaeology and questions essentialist models of race, language, and caste. The version here is a post-print (peer reviewed and before publisher formatting) of a published book section that appears in Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger (2013), edited by S. Chrisomalis and A. Costopoulos, University of Toronto Press.