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100			_aLahiri, Nayanjot
245		0	_aTime Pieces : a whistle: stop tour of ancient india _b/ Nayanjot Lahiri
250			_a1st ed.
260			_bHachette, India, 2022.
300			_a214p. ; 20cm.
520			_a'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.
650			_aEnglish miscellaneous writings
942			_cENGLISH
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