Enamul Haque
26 books
Original scholarly articles relating to the various aspects of the Bengal art in particular and art of the Eastern India and Bangladesh in general are considered for publication in the Journal of Bengal Art. Reports and information on archaeology architecture, sculpture, painting, epigraphy, numismatics, religion, ethnography and the spectrum of folk and decorative arts are welcome. New publications are received for reviewing. Notices and evaluation of ...
Syed Ejaz Hussain.1.Discovery of Husain Shah’s New Inscription And Ruins of A Jami Mosque from Husainabad in Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh and Diffusion of The Bengal Art/Heinrich Poell.2. The Buddhist Monasteries at Sirpur: The Southernmost Outpost of Eastern Indian Buddhist Art?/Sudipa Ray Bandyopadhyay.3. Some Imprecatory Scenes in Early Medieval Inscriptions of Eastern India/Mohammad Rezaul Karim.4. Sultan Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah of Bengal and the Date ...
Paharpur or Somapur Mahavihara is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the most prominent archaeological site in Bangladesh. This is the largest Mahavihara in South Asia. International Center for Study of Bengal Art (ICSBA) has taken the initiatives to make a publication by compiling all the unforgettable literature and research work on this site such as the Excavation Report of K.N. Dikshit published in 1933, Report of Buchanan Hamilton etc. The book will ...
Susan L. Huntington.1. Bengal's artistics legacy at home and abroad: Atisa and other connections with Tibet/Susan L. Huntington. 2. Towards understanding the Buddhist environment in two Brahmanical settlement zones from some unpublished Buddhist antiquities of erstwhile West Dinajpur, West Bengal/Ranjusri Ghosh. 3. Residential Madrasa cim mosues in Mughal Dhaka and their characteristic features/Ayesha Begum. 4. From Candragupta II to Kumaragupta I: styles in the ...
Original scholarly articles relating to the various aspects of the Bengal art in particular and art of the Eastern India and Bangladesh in general are considered for publication in the Journal of Bengal Art. Reports and information on archaeology architecture, sculpture, painting, epigraphy, numismatics, religion, ethnography and the spectrum of folk and decorative arts are welcome. New publications are received for reviewing. Notices and evaluation of ...
Pratip Kumar Mitra.1. Rediscovering Gaur: Source Material in the Public Collections of the United Kingdom./Knoundkar Alamgir.2. Some Reflections on present State of Study of Sultanate Architecture in Bangladesh./Noor Bano Sattar.3. An Inscribed Image of the Buddhist Deity from West Bengal./Rituparna Basu.4. A study of the Kantha Art of Bengal: Contesting Claims of Tradition and Modernity./Ayoub Khan.5. Some Comments on the Seals of Bengal Copperplates./A K M ...
Gerald Kozicz.1. From Mainamati to Nyarma: Remarks on the Development from Cruciform to Oblong-Shaped Temple Layouts/Niaz Zaman.2. Presences and Absences: Feminine Representations in the Nakshi Kantha/Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt.3. The Tantric Buddhist Deity I-Trailokyavijaya in Pāla, Shingon#Vajrapān and Tibetan Art and Tantra Systematics/Andrea Loseries.4. On the Synchrony of Mundane vs. Transmundane in Tāntrik Iconography: Hari Hari Hari Vāhana/Gouriswar ...
A hinterland in the old world of Islam, the early history of the consolidation of Islamic civilization in Bengal is somewhat shrouded with mystery. After the establishment of Muslim rule in the region, mass conversion to Islam took place over centuries in different phases. The book seeks to analyze the early diffusion of Islamic culture in Bengal using the substantively rich and hitherto untapped Arabic and Persian inscriptions scattered all over the region.The ...
There was never any doubt about the vitality of Dhaka. The four hundred years have therefore seen its continuous life, intermittent growth and inevitable changes. The social forces which contributed noticeably towards the growth of Dhaka and its immediate neighborhood were in fact urbanizing a much larger territory. The process is still in operation. Notwithstanding the age-old multidirectional riverine connection between Dhaka and neighboring districts, the ...
Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt.1. Cakrasamvara Iconography and Buddhist Religious Politics in Medieval Bengal/Syed Ejaz Hussain.2. Meaning and Message of Art on Bengal Sultan’s Coinage/Asok Datta.3. Archaeology of Deulpota/A. K. M Yaqub Ali.4. Two Epigraphs of Bengal Sultanate: A Study of Historical and Aesthetic Aspects/Darielle Mason.5. Arts of Bengal in the Philadelphia Museum of Art /Gouriswar Bhattacharya.6. The Snake-Goddess from Rangpur – How did ...
This compendium on Chandraketugarh, the renowned archaeological site and the treasure-house of Bengal terracottas, is intended for both the general readers and the serious scholars. For the first time, the general readers will have access to a very important source of fascinating art of ancient Bengal presented in a readable and comprehensible manner. Similarly, the painstakingly compiled materials will provide the researchers with the background to examine the ...
For nearly seventy years scholars had been aware of the surface finds of silver punch-marked coins, semi-precious stone beads, iron slags, pottery etc. from the twin villages of Wari-Bateshwar, Narsingdi district, Bangladesh. As no systematic archaeological investigation had been carried out so far in the region, The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art (ICSBA) undertook, with permission from the Government, a small scale trial excavation which was ...
Ahmad Hasan Dani.1. Individuality of Bengal Art/B.N. Mukherjee.2. The First Common Denominator in Bengal Art the Scope for Further Research in the Art of the Pala Age/Asok Datta.3. Art and Archaeology of Natsal/S.S. Mostafizur Rahman.4. The Semi-Precious Stone Beads from Mahasthangarh: A Preliminary Study/Frederick M. Asher.5. Built by the King: Monarchical Authority and Royal Patronage/Debala Mitra.6. A Brief Survey of the Representation of Asta-maha ...
R. Nagaswamy.1. Eastern Indian Contact with Tamilnad/T.S. Maxwell.2. The Extent of the Vaikuntha and Visvarupa Cults in the Later Kalacuri and Pala Territories in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries/S.S. Mostafizur Rahman.3. Recent Discovery of Northern Black Polished Ware in the Mahasthangarh Region: An Archaeological Perspective/B.N. Mukherjee.4. Art in the Gold Coins of Gauda, Vanga and Samatata of the Post-Gupta Age (c. A.D. 570-750)/Gourisankar De.5. Fish Motif ...
B.N. Mukherjee.1. Issues in the Art of Bengal/J.F. Salles.2. Excavations at Mahasthangarh: New Evidence of Contacts with the Ganges Valley/R.Nagaswamy.3. Bengaland Cidambaram/Asok Datta.4. Bengaland South-East Asia-Early Trade and Cultural Contacts/S.C. Mukherji.5. The Royal Charters of King Madanapala and the Chronology of the Pala Kings of Bengal and Bihar/S.S. Mostafizur Rahman.6. Recent Discovery of Glass Beads from Mahasthangarh Region: An Archaeological ...
R. Nagaswamy.1. Bengals Contribution to Cola Temples/Janice Leoshko.2. Considering Unusual Images and Their Sites: The Example of Kurukulla from Hasra Kol/B.N. Mukherjee.3. Two Representations of Open Air Shrines in Ancient Vanga/Sutapa Sinha.4. An Unpublished Coin Hoard of the Bengal Sultans from Dakshin Dinajpur District, West Bengal/S. C. Mukherji.5. Two New Copper Plates of King Gopala II of the Pala Dynasty of Bengal and Bihar, Regnal year 4 (c. 877 ...
Gerd J.R. Mevissen.1. Three Interesting Jaina Sculptures from Dinajpur/Gouriswar Bhattacharya.2. Pretasantarpita-Lokesvara/A.J. Gail.3. Four Times Avalokitesvara in Orissa/B.N. Mukherjee.4. The Calligraphic Art in Ancient Vanga/S. C. Mukherji.5. BangladeshNational MuseumStone Slab Inscription of King Gopala IV (?). Regnal Year 9 (1137 A.D.?)/M.F. Boussac & Sandrine Gill.6. Moulded Terracotta Plaques from Mahasthan/Jean-Yves Breuil & Jean-Francois ...
Eva Allinger.1. The Paintings in the Loka-hteik-pan at Pagan, Myanmar: Stylistic Connections with Paintings from Bengal/Bimal Bandyopadhyay.2. Shunga-Kushan Art as Gleaned from the Recent Excavation at DumDum, Kolkata/Geoffrey Samuel.3. Ritual Technologies and the State: The Mandala-Form Buddhist Temples of Bangladesh/T. K. Biswas.4. A Note on Murshidabad Barahmasa Paintings/Ajay Khare.5. Templesof the Pala Period on the Chhotanagpur Plateau and its Eastern ...
This book is the third in the series of Marg studies in the regional cultures of the subcontinent – the first two being on the arts of Kutch and Orissa. The book focuses on both West Bengal and Bangladesh which, though parts of the subcontinent, are politically separate entities. However, until 1947, the two formed a single political unit known as Bengal. In a sense therefore the two “Bengals†are being united again in this volume through discourses on ...
Asok DattaThe.1. Art of Pottery Paintings in Bengal during Black and Red Ware (Chalcolithic) Culture/Amita Ray.2. Terracottas from Excavations at Mangalkot (Burdwan)/Paola G. Tinti.3. On the Brahmi Inscription of Mahasthan/Enamul Haque.4. Chandraketugarh: A Resume of Excavation Reports (1956-67)/Dilip K. Chakrabarty.5. Two Examples of Mauryan Art from Bengal/Samir Kumar Mukherjee.6. A Note on Some Buddhist Antiquities in Terracotta from West Bengal/Gourisanker ...
A.K.M Yaqub Ali & Ruhul Kuddus Md. Salah.1. A Few Epigraphs of the Suburb of Gaur: A Study of their Content and Calligraphic Art/Claudine Bautze Picron.2. Some Observations on the Cosmological Buddhapadas at Pagan/Nazimuddin Ahmed.3. Late Buddhist Monuments of Bangladesh/S.C. Mukherji.4. Some Glimpses of Independent States in Bengal in the Gupta Period and After/Gouriswar Bhattacharya.5. An Inscribed Stone Image of the Buddhist Deity Aparajita/R. Nagaswamy.6. ...
Bimal Bandyopadhyay.1. Recent Excavation at the Area Adjacent to Baisgazi Wall at Gaur and Scientific Clearance at Some Adjoining Areas, District: Maldah, West Bengal/Ruhul Kuddus Md. Saleh.2. Two Sarcophagi: An Appraisal/Claudine Bautze-Picron.3. Some Remarks on Contemporary Brahmanical and Buddhist Cast Images from Dhamrai, Bangladesh/S.C. Mukherji.4. On A Unique Stone Sculpture of Surya, Consecarated at Bindol in West Bengal/Sutapa Sinha.5. Cooch BeharHoard of ...