B.N. Mukherjee
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The Kushana period (c. 2 half of the 1 century B.C. to c. mid - 3 century A.D.) is one of the most important phases of history of not only the Indian subcontinent, but also the whole of the orient. Momentous discoveries and propagation of new thought-provoking theories about the Kushanas in the last two decades have made a reassessment of our knowledge about them a desideratum for proper understanding of the oriental as well as Indian history. The present ...
Ancient coins, surviving into the present age, are living commentaries on the dead past. So coins of a given period and area constitute an important source of information about its history and culture. Bengal (now divided into West Bengal and Bangladesh) is no exception. But the discoveries and recognition of identity of several series of coins of ancient (up to c. AD 750) and proto-mediaeval (c. AD 750-1200) Bengal have been done only in the last two decades. A ...
The importance of the Kushana empire in the history of the orient is well-known. The gold and copper coins of the imperial Kushanas form one of the most varied and interesting series of oriental coinage. It is striking to note that though we know of a very large number of gold and copper coins of the Kushanas, silver pieces attributable to them are negligible in number. This problem merits investigation, since silver is known to have been one of the most widely ...
The educated people of the Indian subcontinent are very much interested to know the origin of the Brahmi and Kharoshti scripts of early India. They are also curious about the feasibility of the decipherment of the Indus script. Attempts have been made in this monograph to fulfill these needs. The monograph is divided in four chapters. Chapter 1 discusses about the difficulties in deciphering the Indus script and also the progress made in recent decades about ...
The present treatise is the first of the four volumes of publication entitled Numismatic Art of India: Documentation of Materials. Volumes I deals with the numismatic art of India up to C.AD 1835. The modern age in Indian coinage commenced in about that year. The present treatise is divided into ten chapter and three appendices. While all the chapters are written by Prof. B.N. Mukherjee, appendices I, II and III are written respectively by Dr. Sabita Sharma, D. ...