In Chapter 9, “The Absent Excavation Reports,” I synthesize the major arguments in this book by concentrating on the final epistemological artifact of ASI archaeology—the excavation report. I employ the unpublished and controversial ASI’s Ayodhya excavation report of 2003 as an epistemological site to underscore the foremost argument of this book, that, in postcolonial India, ASI archaeology was a structural construct of bureaucratic governmentality rather than a knowledgeproducing epistemological practice. I show how the logic of bureaucratic corruption outlines the contours of an excavation project in the ASI.