‘Kamatapur: An Unexplored History of Eastern India (650-1498)’ is the first book and first writing on the history of Kamatapur (Kamta kingdom) and on Kamatapur. As it is the first effort to bind facts together to give a shape to understand what Kamatapur was or what the history of Kamatapur is, those who want to know about Kamatapur will love and like this book. Devoid of historical knowledge, we miss the linkage with the past, with our civilizational roots, political and social legacy and cultural heritage; therefore, while living for generations in the historical-geographical location ofancient Kamatapur or Kamta (Kamata) kingdom in the Tista-Brhmaputra valley, the people of the area comprising ancient Kamatapur must not, should not and can not ignore the history of Kamatapur. We have to learn what Kamatapurwas and Kamatapur stood for; after all, it is to fill up and save our memory ofthe past appertaining to Kamatapur.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sailen Debnath
Sailen Debnath, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History, Alipurduar College, has been engrossed in the studies of the history of ideas and intellectual history of India and Europe as well as of the history of Bengal and North Bengal for the last twenty-five years. He has authored pioneering books namely (1) 'The Meanings of Hindu Gods, Goddesses and Myths', (Rupa & Co, New Delhi.); (2) ‘Secularism: Western and lndian’, (Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi); (3) ‘Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: His Philosophy, Political Thought and Contribution’ (Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi); (4) ‘Human Rights in the Context of Caste, Class and Gender in India’ (Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi); (5) ‘The Dooars in Historical Transition’, (NL Publications); (6) ‘Essays on Cultural History of North Bengal’, (NL Publications), (7) ‘West Bengal in Doldrums’, (NL Publications), including an edited book, ‘Social and Political Tensions in North Bengal Since 1947’.
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