"Indo-European linguistics and archaeology have been exploited to support openly ideological agendas for so long that …"

"As Trigger (1995) notes, the main impact of nationalism has been to influence the questions about the past that archa…"

"[H]istorians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to the heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw…"

"[R.C. Majumdar restricts the term ‘nationalist historians’ to those Indians who in reconstructing their country’s his…"

"The mere fact that the author of this book happens to be a Bengali should not stand in the way of expressing this tru…"

"Jadunath wrote to him on 19 November, 1937:, “National history, like every other history worthy of the name and deser…"

"All archaeological stories—be they classical, biblical, nationalist, or evolutionary—can be read as narratives of the…"

"The emotional power of archaeology in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and the regions of the form…"

"Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject."

"Poitiers and Cressy tell, When most their pride did swell, Under our swords they fell: No less our skill is Than when…"