Studies in South Asian Heritage: Essays in Memory of M. Harunur Rashid

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Contents: Preface. I. Art and Iconography: 1. Textiles from Bengal in Pagan (Myanmar) from Late Eleventh century and onwards/Claudine Bautze Picron. 2. Some Hindu and Buddhist Bronzes from Bangladesh/Pratapaditya Pal. 3. SciBa update 1: addenda, corrigenda, desiderata et monenda to Sculptures in Bangaldesh” (2008)/Gerd J.R. Mevissen. 4. A dancing Camunda named Siddhesvari from the time of Mahipala I/Gudrun Melzer. 5. Dancing Siva images from Bengal/Anna Slaczka. 6. Myth of a dog-misunderstanding of a curse/Gouriswar Bhattacharya. 7. The monkey offering honey-an excellent sculpture from Bihar in the Museum of far eastern antiquities, Stockholm/Isabell Johne. 8. Camunda images from North Bengal/Mandira Bhattacharya. 9. Iconography of the Narayanpur Nagaraja preserved in the Mainamati Museum/Mokammal H. Bhuiyan. 10. Bodhgaya Lintel bearing the inscription of Dharmapala/Gautam Sengupta. 11. Terracotta, stone-carving and calligraphic art of medieval Bengal: an aesthetic treatment/A.K.M. Yaqub Ali. 12. A Hoard of Chinese blue and white porcelain from Delhi/B.R. Mani. 13. Arabic calligraphy as an urban art/Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg.

II. Archaeology: 14. Hinduism from prehistory to early history/Dilip K. Chakrabarti. 15. Cultural continuity of the Indus Valley Civilization in Sindh, Southern Pakistan/Mohammad Rafique Mughal. 16. A preliminary study of the worked bone industry in the Middle and Lower Ganga Valleys: from the Mesolithic to the early historic periods/Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay and Kum Kum Bandyopadhyay. 17. A brief note on seasonal iron working site of Satvahana period in the Solapur District of Maharashtra/Kantikumar Anant Pawar. 18. A report on excavation at Bhatbhita, 2003-2004/Md. Mosharraf Hossain. 19. Early Islamic glazed pottery from Banbhore and its connections with contemporary cities during 8th to 11th centuries CE/Mohammad Rafique Mughal. 20. Understanding a site: case study of Mainamati in Southeastern Bangladesh/Suchandra Ghosh. 21. Ethno archaeology of high tin bronze in Bengal: a case study at Khagra, District Murshidabad/Pranab K. Chattopadhyay and Prasanta Kumar Datta.

III. Architecture: 22. The spirit of Fathpur-Sikri/A.B.M. Husain. 23. Francis Sandford Oehme (1817-1898) and the “Ruined Temple, Chandernagore”/Joachim K. Bautze. 24. Bengal’s colonial entanglement: architecture/Abdul Momin Chowdhury. 25. An inventory of Muslim monuments in the city of Chittagong/Shamsul Hossain.

IV. Epigraphy and Numismatics: 26. Sakyabhiksu of bronze image inscriptions of Bengal (West Bengal and Bangladesh)/Sarita Khettry. 27. Copperplate grants of Salban Vihara/Abul Kalam Muhammad Zakariah. 28. Khangah, Madrasa and the transmission of knowledge in Bengali tradition: some early-epigraphic evidences/Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq. 29. On the chronology and events of Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah: a numismatic study/Md Rezaul Karin.

V. History: 30. The socio-legal status of women in ancient Bengal/Shahanara Husain. 31. Sridharadasa’s Saduktikarnamrita: a unique anthology of Sanskrit Verses/Chitta Ranjan Misra. 32. 1000 Years of history and heritage of Dhaka: an introductory note/A.K.M. Shahnawaz. 33. Re-visiting Ramna-looking back 400 years/Sharif Uddin Ahmed. 34. The Dhaka improvement trust: an urban development agency during the Pakistan period/A.K.M. Golam Rabbani.

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Title
Studies in South Asian Heritage: Essays in Memory of M. Harunur Rashid
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9840753835
Length
446p., 52 Colour Plates; 145 Colour Figures; 7 Maps; 4 Drawings; 26 Colour Photographs
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