TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lahiri, Nayanjot
TI  - Time Pieces : a whistle: stop tour of ancient india: / Nayanjot Lahiri
SN  - 9789351952473
U1  - 828.92 LAH 
PB  - Hachette, India, 2022.
KW  - English miscellaneous writings
N2  - 'There are many missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is ancient India, but those we have yield a rich tapestry.'

The oldest surviving love graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a peoples' food obsessions; architectural minutiae that point to the alarming regression of a civilization's potty habits; intriguing sculptures that reveal myriad facets of the human-animal relationship...

In Time Pieces, award-winning historian Nayanjot Lahiri whimsically sifts through intricate clues left behind by the early inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent - in plaques and inscriptions, fragments of jewellery, bones and tools, poetry, art and pottery - to reveal to us our ancient land in all its variety, splendour, complexity and contradictions
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