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A Children's History of India in 100 Objects 

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Item Code: HAB867
Author: Devika Cariapa
Publisher: Puffin Books
Language: English
Edition: 2023
ISBN: 9780143452423
Pages: 430 (Throughout Color Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 9x6 inch
Weight 700 gm
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About The Book

Devika Cariapa trained as an archaeologist but found her calling uncovering stories from stones, making the world of archaeology accessible for children.

An award-winning author, her first book India through Archaeology: Excavating History was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2019 and the Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Award 2018. Her subsequent works have been awarded the Neev Book Award for Distinguished Children's Literature 2021 and have been shortlisted for the Times of India AutHer Awards 2022 and the Neev Book Award 2022.

When she's not writing, Devika enjoys exploring the art of calligraphy. She is a professional loiterer, often found wandering around monuments or between the shelves of second-hand bookstores in Bangalore.

Priyanka Tampi is an illustrator, animator, storyteller, and an amateur poet. All her years of creative work have involved everything from commissioned illustrations to music videos and animated reels, and it's been a thrilling ride!

Introduction

Our ancestors certainly knew how to leave a mark! The trail of objects and treasures they left behind are testament to their creativity and resourcefulness. Today, we can see some of their handiwork enduring in ancient stone tools, fragments of pottery, fine sculpture, or in lustrous art painted on dark cave walls centuries ago. However, often these objects seem mysterious and inaccessible. Every now and then we get a glimpse of them, possibly displayed behind the locked glass cases of a museum, but they seem silent, their stories unknown. p> Why, then, are they considered so significant? p> Archaeologists and historians call these treasures 'material remains'. Smaller, movable remains are known as artefacts. Immovable remains, such as structures, are known as features. Since these material remains belong to a time and place far removed from our own, it is not always easy to figure out their original purpose. So, scholars have to study them carefully to find clues to what they were made for or how they were used. In doing this, they are able to use these objects from the past to reveal unique, often untold, stories about people of the time and how they lived. p> There are different ways of getting information from an object.

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