assumed that indian history was just a collection of unrelated events like a series of migration and conquests owing their origin to external stimuli it did not reveal the organic growth of a nation or a civilisation marking the stages of development or decline it was as though india was simply a geographical entity providing an empty stage for odd characters to appear and move about for some time before their mysterious disappearance he said in the inaugural function asi director general kasturi gupta menon said the government was trying to devise a new scheme to fund academic events that mostly run on paltry funding she also called upon ngos to address the sponsorship issue of such events archaeologist v n misra was among the experts who attended the function