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ISBN | 9788194991212 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2021 |
Bib. Info | hb; 192p; 23cm. Includes Bibliography and Index |
Product Weight | 500 gms. |
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This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithila plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Ma]thas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century ad; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pilĀgrimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal.