1. Guha-Thakurta points out that the influence of processual archaeology is constituted in the form of certain assumptions regarding the scientificity of archaeological method and the objectivity of interpretation (Guha-Thakurta 1997, 30).
2. This alignment of science and religion is the latest twist in the appropriation of science in defence of tradition in India. Speaking within the colonial context, Prakash uses the notion of “translation” to describe the process by which science was appropriated by natives (Prakash 1996, 59–82).
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