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Social and Political Factors in Post-Colonial Indian Archaeology: The Case of Sanghol, Punjab

By: Neha Gupta  
Open Access
|May 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha.262 | Journal eISSN: 2047-6930
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Published on: May 27, 2015
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