Journal of Bengal Art: Volume 13 & 14

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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 Bhattacharya.5. Kanyā-Kumārī: A Repeated Absurd Identification/Bedasruti Bhattacharyya.6. Tradition of Fresco-Paintings of Bengal as Gleaned from Inscriptional Sources/Gourisankar De.7. Winged Divinities from Chandraketugarh/Claudine Bautze-Picron.8. Review Article/Gerd J.R. Mevissen.9. A Group of Strange Sūrya Images from Gajole in the Malda Museum: Some Remarks on the Bare Feet of Sūrya and his Attendants/Suchandra Ghosh.10. Nature of royal Patronage in South-Eastern Bengal: 507AD – 1250 AD/Ranjusri Ghosh.11. Second Report of Archaeological Investigation in two Dinajpur district (Dakshin and Uttar) of West Bengal/Ayesha Begum.12. Bhawanipur Temple Complex: Architectural Characteristics/Najma Khan Majlis.13. 19th Century Zamindar Baris (Manor Houses) of Bangladesh : Some Observations/Bimal Bandyopadhyay.14. Archaeological Remains in the North-Eastern Part of India/Shubhradip De.15. Ring Stones, Disc Stones/A K M Yaqub Ali.16. Siqayahin the Epigraphic Records of Medieval Bengal/Ajay Khare, Satyaki Sarkar and Jaydeb Sarkar.17. Harmony of Religion and its Expression through Architecture/Baba Mishra.18. Early Historic Archaeology of the Tel River Valley/Mokammal H. Bhuiyan.19. Buddha Survived as Vāsudeva/Khoundkar Alamgir.20. Single Unit Square Type Sultanate Buildings of Bengal/Krishnendu Ray.21. Socio-Economic and Cultural Study of the Rajbhita (Greater Dinajpur district,Bangladesh) Stone Slab Inscription of the time of Mahipala (I), Regnal Year 33/Susmita Basu Majumdar.22. Typological Progression in Numismatic Art- A Case Study of Bengal Gold Coinage/Sayantani Pal.23. Observations on the Palaeography of the Bengal Coins and Inscriptions (5th – 8th century)/Nasir Uddin Mobin.24. Household Objects from Excavated Archaeological Sites of Bangladesh and its Domestic Context.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Enamul Haque

Professor Enamul Haque had his M.A. in History (Archaeology Group) from Dhaka (1960), Diploma in Museology from London (1964) and Doctorate in South Asian Art from Oxford (1973). For three decades since 1962 he served the Dhaka Museum and rose to be the Founder Director General of the Bangladesh National Museum, developing it to be the largest Museum in the Third World. He was for a year (1990) Secretary-in-charge of the Ministry of Culture of Bangladesh. He also taught Art History, Museology and National Heritage in the universities of Dhaka and Jahangirnagar, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, and the Independent University at Dhaka. An organizer of exceptional ability, he is the Founder Chairman (since 1995) and Academic Director of The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art (ICSBA) at Dhaka, convened four International Congresses on Bengal Art (1976, 1997, 1999 and 2001) and edits the Journal of Bengal Art. He was honoured by the Asiatic Society of Calcutta with the award of the Rama Prasad Chanda Birth Centenary Medal (1993) for his "conspicuous contribution in art and archaeology of Bengal". Earlier, the Asia Society of New York honoured him by electing as their Honorary International Councilor (1986-92). He served as the President of the International Council of Museum (ICOM) Asia Pacific Organization (1983-86). Among his publications, notables are Islamic Art Heritage of Bangladesh (1983) and Bengal Sculptures: Hindu Iconography (1992), the latter being a quantitative assessment of nearly two thousand sculptures now preserved in different parts of the world.