The Nilgiri Archaeological Project: Culture and Environment in the Upland Forests of South India from Antiquity to Late Modernity Ghent University
Indian upland forest-dwellers – like many other indigenous communities around the globe – are under threat from resource extraction, agricultural development and de-forestation as are the material remains of their cultures. These people are still perceived as a-historical therefore research on their past is scant and inadequate. This is the result of a Eurocentric perspective that is still dominant today and relegates Indian upland ...