Journal of Bengal Art: Volume 3

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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 in Bengal Art/Sutapa Sinha.6. Unpublished Coin Hoards of the Later Ilyas Shahi Sultans of Bengal/Amita Ray.7. Kalighat Painting in the Context of Artistic Perception in Colonial Calcutta/Gauriswar Bhattacharya.8. A Dated Visnu Image of the Mahipala (I) Period/A.M. Chowdhury & Abu H. Imamuddin.9. Panam: An Adjunct of Sonargaon/Pratip Kumar Mitra.10. Three Unnoticed Inscriptions of the Sultans of Bengal./Najma Khan Majlis.11. Stucco Decoration of Some Historical Buildings of Dhaka: An Appraisal (Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century)/Jean-Francois Salles.12. North Bengalin the Mauryan and Post-Mauryan Periods: Reflections on the Ancient History of Mahasthan/Muhammad Abdul Qadir.13. Some Important Coins of Bengal Sultans with Mint Names Daru Nur andJannatabad/Jayashri Lahiri.14. Plant Study in Bengal School of Sculptures from 8th to 13th Century/Enamul Haque.15. Maritime Activities and the Indigenous Traditions of Boat-Building in Ancient and Mediaeval Bengal/Khoundkar Alamgir.16. Archaeological Remains at Barabazar, Jhenidah District/Kishor K. Basa & S.S. Mostafizur Rahman.

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.

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Journal of Bengal Art: Volume 3
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1st ed.
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302p., Figures; 9 Col. & 112 B/w Plates; Notes; 29m.
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