Wheeler at Harappa Early archaeologists were often driven by a sense of adventure. This is what Wheeler wrote about his experience at Harappa: It was, I recall, on a warm May night in that a four miles’ tonga -ride brought me as the newly appointed Director General of the Archaeological Survey with my local Muslim officer from a little railway-station labelled “Harappa” along a deep sand track to a small rest- house beside the moonlit mounds of the ancient site. Warned by my anxious colleague that we must start our inspection at . next morning and finish by .
“after which it would be too hot”, we turned in with the dark figure of the punka - walla crouched patiently in the entrance and the night air rent by innumerable jackals in the neighbouring wilderness. Next morning, punctually at . , our little procession started out towards the sandy heaps. Within ten minutes I stopped and rubbed my eyes as I gazed upon the tallest mound, scarcely trusting my vision.
Six hours later my embarrassed staff and I were still toiling with picks and knives under the blazing sun, the mad sahib (I am afraid) setting a relentless pace. F ROM R.E.M. W HEELER , My Archaeological Mission to India and Pakistan, . Which of the themes in this chapter would have interested Cunningham?
Which are the issues that have been of interest since ?