CONTENTS Preface 7 Acknowledgements 9 INTRODUCTION Archaeology, Photography, Histories Sudeshna Guha 10 1 Orientalism and Archaeology: Writing the History of South Asia, 1600-1860 Michael S. Dodson 68 2 The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa in Colonial India Tapati Guha-Tbakurta 94 3 Photographs in Sir John Marshall's Archaeology Sudeshna Guha 136 4 'Buddhist' Photography Christopher Pinney 178 Cunningham, Marshall and the Monks: An Early Historic City as a Buddhist Landscape Robert Harding 202 Appendix A: John Marshall and the Photographic Collections Sudeshna Guha 232 Appendix B: Seminal Excavations Undertaken during Marshall's Directorship ol the Archaeological Survey of India Sudeshna Guha 253 Appendix C: Bibliography 257 Catalogue of Photographs: Ihe Marshall Albums 268 Index 277