We watch a ruin emerge out of the ground and a city engulf it.
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| Burke’s photograph from 1868 for Henry Hardy Cole’s Archaeological Survey of India report, ‘Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir’ (1869). |
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| A postcard from Lambert’s Kashmir series. Must be around 1910 when J. C. Chatterji did the primary digging. Below: A Photograph from ‘Our summer in the vale of Kashmir’ (1915) by Frederick Ward Denys. 
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| 1956 from a book published by Indian Publications Division |
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| From Debala Mitra’s ‘Pandrethan, Avantipur & Martand’ 1977 Photograph by Ranjit Mitra |
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| ASI postcard from 1970s |
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| Avantipur, 2014 |
Previously:
Complete Guide to Awantiswamin Temple, Avantipur
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How could ASI allow constructions so close to this magnificent monument. I wonder how would Konark look with houses in the back ground.