"Archaeology in South Asia did not crystallize out of the informal archaeology of enthusiastic amateur South Asians, but was created by elite foreigners, at the capital, by an act of state."

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Thomas R. Trautmann, Carla M. Sinopoli, "In the Beginning was the Word: Excavating the Relations between History and Archaeology in South Asia", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 45, no. 4 (2002), p. 516