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Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a clear departure from the existing scholarship, this volume questions the linearity of considering trade as the sole determinant of creation of settlement in the coastal regions. Focusing on settlement strategies, Chattopadhyay unravels how human societies, through successive generations, have adapted to the coastal environment and bioregime.
First-hand data, procured through ...
Sanskriti Vichitra, presented in two volumes, contains 128 essays on such wide range of subjects like art, archaeology, museums, museology, heritage management, etc. The book, with its varied subjects, is divided into two volumes –Vol. I on Art and Archaeology, and Vol. II on Museums, Museology and Heritage Management.
Volume I comprise 61 articles. Though broadly classified as ‘Art and Archaeology’ volume, it contains articles on Prehistory, ...
The present work renders an account of my knowledge of the archaeological sources of Bankura and its adjoining areas from the earliest times to the 13 century AD. It does not pretend to be more than a stocktaking of my incomplete evidence and interpretations and should be treated as a preliminary work as well as an incentive for further works in this field. Some form of working hypothesis is essential which may have to be drastically revised, and I have ...