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Jun 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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1/ Assam State Museum has 13,802 objects and out of which 1,621 are displayed. @himantabiswa sir if you can get these #Archaeological objects scanned, it will be a great boon for Assam Heritage and Tourism. museums.assam.gov.in/portlets/maste… Image
@himantabiswa 2/ This represent a beautiful female figure standing in tribhanga posture against a plain damaged back ground.
11th Century
Pic 1 : restored with Photoshop
Pic 2 : Poor Quality Government site NMMA
@himantabiswa you need to focus here boss.
#Assam #Archaeology Read here NMMA description ...Image
3/ Pic 1 : NMMA with description as Dancing Girls.
Pic 2 : restored image
#Assam #Archaeology As per NMMA these are danci...Image
4/ Gajalakshmi,
Bhubaneswari temple Kamakhaya Guwahati
#Assam #Archaeology The deity Lakshmi is depict...Image
5/ Hari-Hara
C. 8th - 9th Cent. CE
Deopani Golaghat, Assam
#Archaeology #Assam The right half of this comp...Image
6/ Mahisamardini (bronze)
Odalbakra, Kahilipara, Guwahati
C. 9th-11th Century A.D
museums.assam.gov.in/portlets/maste…
#Assam #Archaeology Image

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Jan 4
#GemsOfASI #11

1/ Lving worship, conservation law, and manufactured conflict.

Across India, living worship and heritage protection are repeatedly presented as being in conflict.

This conflict is often treated as inevitable.
It is not. Image
2/
 Indian temples were historically designed for continuous use.

Architecture anticipated:
• daily rituals
• water flow
• oil lamps
• human movement

Use was not an accident.
It was part of structural logic. Image
3/
 Colonial conservation law introduced a new assumption:
That **use causes damage**, and protection requires restriction.

This assumption worked for abandoned ruins in Europe.
Applied to living Indian temples, it created friction. Image
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Jan 2
Your great-great-grandfather didn't have a surname.

He had a gotra. A kula. A title earned or inherited. A village name. A trade.

Then the British census arrived. 1871–1881.

Suddenly, administration needed fixed surnames. Standardized. Permanent. Inheritable only through patrilineal descent.

Surname took birth in addition to "son of / daughter of / wife of"

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1/ Before colonization:

Rama Dasharathi. Krishna Vasudev. Arjuna Pandav.

Your identity was relational. Fluid. Context-dependent.

Father's name. Gotra for ritual. Kula for lineage. Village for geography. Occupation when needed.

No bureaucracy required you to pick ONE and freeze it forever.Image
2/ The British didn't care about your gotra.

They cared about taxation, land records, and census data.

So they imported their system: fixed hereditary surnames. Alphabetically sortable. Administratively convenient.

By 1900, most of India had complied. Not by choice. By necessity.Image
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Dec 25, 2025
1/ Every December, lights appear worldwide.

Diwali: diyas blaze during Kartik's darkest new moon (late Oct/early Nov).
Hanukkah: 8 candles in December.
Christmas: trees glow on Dec 25.
Yule, Dongzhi, Saturnalia... all cluster around winter solstice.

Why? 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 🕯️Image
2/ Rome, 217 BCE: Saturnalia begins Dec 17.

For one week, social order inverts. Slaves dine first. Masters serve. Courts close, gambling's allowed. Gifts exchanged: candles, wax figurines, pottery.

It celebrated Saturn's mythical "Golden Age"—a world without hierarchy.

Then normal life resumed.Image
3/ Fast-forward to 4th-century Rome: Christianity spreads.

Challenge: populations cling to winter festivals—Saturnalia, Sol Invictus (Dec 25 "Unconquered Sun"), local traditions.

Solution: 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭, don't erase.

Dec 25 becomes Christmas. Bible's silent on the date. Shepherds in fields suggest spring.

Same season, new meaning.Image
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Dec 18, 2025
🧵 THREAD: Sambhar Lake didn’t become salty by accident.
It is the chemical footprint of the Aravallis. 🧂⛰️

Erase the hills, and the lake doesn’t shrink.
It dies.

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@narendramodi @PMOIndia @mygovindia @TVMohandasPai @CPCB_OFFICIAL @PIB_India @moefcc 1/
Sambhar Lake sits at the NE edge of the Aravalli Range.
This is not coincidence.
It is a tectonic basin formed along ancient Aravalli fault lines.

No Aravallis → no Sambhar.
Simple geology. Ignored policy. Image
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2/
 The Aravallis are ~3.2–2.5 billion years old.
Among the oldest folded mountains on Earth.

Sambhar exists because these rocks fractured, weathered, subsided.
Deep time created today’s salt.

Not “desert evaporation folklore”.
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Dec 17, 2025
1/
 #GemsofASI #2 : British ASI manuals still rule India.
Not symbolically. Institutionally.

India became independent in 1947.
Its archaeology did not.

The Archaeological Survey of India still operates on conservation doctrines framed between 𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟒–𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟖, designed for colonial governance—not for a living civilisation.

#DecolonisationImage
2/
 The 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭, 𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟒 wasn’t written to protect Indian culture.
It was written to **control it**.

Its goals were explicit:
• Centralise authority
• Isolate monuments from locals
• Treat ritual use as damage
• Convert living sites into silent ruins

This logic never left ASI.Image
3/
 British conservation doctrine insisted:
“Preserve the monument in the condition in which it is found.”

In Europe, that meant stabilising already-dead ruins.

In India, it meant 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐝-𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡.

One rule. Two civilisations. Very different consequences.
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Dec 16, 2025
1/9
 Ever hear of the Santhal Hul? Two years BEFORE the 1857 "Sepoy Mutiny" that history books love to call India's "first war of independence," the Santhal tribes rose up in 1855 against British exploitation. This was pure grassroots fury – bows and arrows vs. an empire. Let's dive in. 🏹Image
2/9
 Background: The British "invited" Santhals to clear forests in the Rajmahal Hills (Damin-i-Koh, now Jharkhand/Bihar/WB) for farming and revenue. Sounded good – until zamindars, moneylenders (mahajans), and corrupt officials turned it into a nightmare. Debt traps, land grabs, exorbitant interest, forced labor. Santhals called outsiders "dikus" – exploiters.Image
3/9
 The spark: Brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu (plus Chand, Bhairav, and sisters Phulo & Jhano) claimed divine visions from Thakur Bonga (their god) commanding them to rebel and establish Santhal rule. On June 30, 1855, at Bhognadih village, 10,000+ Santhals gathered, took oaths, and declared war on the dikus.Image
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