Minding one's own Heritage?

Abstract

The "Western appropriation" as Liverani puts it, of ancient western Asia and Egypt is a phenomenon whose consequences have been becoming clear over the last two decades. Perhaps this is an appropriate time to discuss the subject; in the new spirit of eagerness (amongst individual archaeologists and institutions) to open more doors to scholars from the affluent nations, Indian archaeology-the Harappan past in the particular-may face a fate similar to that of Mesopotamia and Egypt.