This article demonstrates how the politics of non-alignment and multilateralism intersected with the making of scientific knowledge about the past after the Second World War. The article shows how post-war political (re-) arrangements helped to realign not only the geographies of that knowledge, but also the people who could claim expertise in making it. The article concentrates on events during UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, which took place during the 1960s and 1970s in Egypt and Sudan in response to the flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Discussing the Egyptian excavations carried out during the work by the Archaeological Survey of India, the article shows how the campaign offered the chance to realign – if not entirely non-align – the ways in which knowledge of the past was made, circulated, and justified. Carrying out archaeological work in another non-aligned nation-state not only represented a favourable international intervention for India, but also allowed the country to rearrange colonial logics of archaeological knowledge production to its advantage and to claim expertise in their use. The Archaeological Survey of India then attempted to perform this expertise elsewhere and thereby bolster the post-partition narrative of a ‘greater India’.

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考古（非？）对齐：埃及、印度和战后过去的全球地理

本文展示了不结盟和多边主义的政治如何与第二次世界大战后对过去的科学知识的形成产生交集。这篇文章展示了战后政治（重新）安排如何不仅有助于重新调整知识的地理范围，而且还有助于重新调整那些可以声称拥有专业知识的人。文章重点介绍了联合国教科文组织拯救努比亚纪念碑国际运动期间的事件，该运动于 1960 年代和 1970 年代在埃及和苏丹为应对阿斯旺大坝建设造成的洪水而发生。这篇文章讨论了印度考古调查局在工作期间进行的埃及发掘，展示了该运动如何提供了重新调整（如果不是完全不结盟）获取过去知识的方式的机会，流传开来，有理有据。在另一个不结盟的民族国家开展考古工作不仅代表了对印度有利的国际干预，而且使该国能够重新安排考古知识生产的殖民逻辑以使其有利，并在其使用中获得专业知识。印度考古调查随后试图在其他地方执行这种专业知识，从而支持“大印度”的分裂后叙事。