"All archaeological stories—be they classical, biblical, nationalist, or evolutionary—can be read as narratives of the inevitability of certain lands to be conquered and the right of certain people to rule."
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(Silberman 1995). 256 Silberman, Neil Asher. 1995. "Promised Lands and Chosen Peoples: The Politics and Poetics of Archaeological Narrative." In Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology (249- 262). Ed. P. Kohl and C. Fawcett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.**in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13
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