The book has marked a particular cultural phase of India and has associated it with the well known ceramic type, the Northern Black Polished Ware, signifying the period. This also involves a broad cultural area at the sub-continent at the advent of 2 urbanism. The extension of this cultural trait is seen in the extreme North/West in the Peshawar region, near Charsada and Udegram in the Swat. The pottery has extended in several places in the south and even beyond it, in Ceylon. The book historically documents how the presence of N.B.P. Ware defines a common socio-economic cultural pattern with which India was associated for a few centuries. The author most successfully presents here the N.B.P. culture of eastern India by organising and analysing serious quantity of data relevant to the answering of the question regarding the socio-economic religious and cultural life of the bigger parts of India, during 550 B.C. to 1000 B.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Durga Basu
Dr. Durga Basu (Ray) M.A. in Archaeology of Calcutta University holds a Doctorate degree in the Department of Archaeology from Calcutta University in the year 1996. Since then she has been engaged in research in different fields of Ancient Indian History and Archaeology. She has published a large number of papers in reputed journals and edited books. At present she is working on, “Buddhism in Eastern Himalayan regionâ€, with a research grant from the Asiatic Society of Bengal. She is well-known in the academic world by her serious research work. She has participated in a number of National Seminar and Conferences. She is now a guest Teacher in the Department of Archaeology, Calcutta University, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata and Birla Academy Art and Culture, Kolkata. At present She is in the Editorial Unit of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, for publication of their volumes of Cultural Heritage.
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