Harishankar, B. S., <br/><br/>
Imprints of the past :  an archaeological outline of northeast India / 
B.S. Harishankar. 
 - Guwahati:  Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture,  2015. 
 - xxi, 289p.:  maps ; 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-286) and index. 
<br/><br/> Imprints of the Past explores the archaeological wealth of  northeast India from Quaternary Period. It brings to focus  the beginnings of agriculture and domestication, trade and technology as well as Great Buddhist Monastic complexes of eastern India and their function in the cultural synthesis of Ganga-Brahmaputra Valley. The study comprehensively incorporates Maurya, Gupta and Post Gupta sites as well as  rock cut cave temples, public architecture, water management, stone and bronze images, inscriptions, coins, paintings and manuscripts supplemented with  considerable tables and maps. The cultural interaction with Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar, China and southeast Asia  is interesting. On a wider canvas the book discusses   approaches of colonial anthropology and agenda of  their contemporary propagandists who attempt to culturally bifurcate northeast India as a separate geo-cultural entity. Extensive archaeological evidence  contend that northeast India can no longer be perceived  as an isolated zone detached from Greater India. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789383079025 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Archaeology and history--India, Northeastern.<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--India, Northeastern.<br/>Historic sites--India.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>930.109548  / HAR-I