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The archaeology of early medieval and medieval South Asia : contesting narratives from the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin /

"This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the theories and methods of archaeology are lar...

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Other Authors: Sen, Swadhin (Editor), Varma, Supriya (Editor), Sahu, Bhairabi Prasad, 1957- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Subjects:
Archaeology > Bangladesh.
Bangladesh > Antiquities.
Archaeology > South Asia.
South Asia > Antiquities.
Bangladesh > History > 17th century.
South Asia > History > 17th century.
Antiquities.
Archaeology.
Bangladesh.
South Asia.
1600-1699
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Trouble of Thinking about the archaeology of the early medieval and the medieval in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin / Swadhin Sen, Supriya Varma and Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
  • PART 1: Conceptual, methodological, and spatiotemporal domains of archaeology
  • Excavating the medieval in South Asian archaeology (c. sixth-fourteenth centuries CE) / Supriya Varma
  • The changing landscape of early medieval Indian history: perspectives from archaeology / Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
  • Engaging with the past beyond the comfort zone: early medieval and medieval in the archaeological context of the northwestern part of Bengal / Swadhin Sen, S. M. Kamrul Ahsan, Abir Bin Keysar and Ahmed Sharif
  • PART 2: Settlements, landscapes, and interpretive frameworks
  • Changing patterns of agrarian development in early medieval North Bengal: a delineation from the inscriptions / Ryosuke Furui
  • Early medieval and medieval settlements on the littoral and active part of a delta: an archaeological study of the southwestern part of Bangladesh / A.K.M. Syfur Rahman and Afroza Khan Mita
  • Chronicles of perpetually reconfiguring entanglements: a precursory understanding of the landscape archaeology of Teesta Megafan of Bangladesh / Swadhin Sen and A. K. M. Khorshed Alam
  • PART 3: Pottery analyses and the spatiotemporal indexes
  • Pottery of Bengal during the early medieval period / Coline Lefrancq
  • Analysing the pottery from the Brahmaputra Valley: issues within archaeology and history (seventh-fifteenth centuries CE) / Preetee Sharma
  • PART 4: Contextualising material culture and monumental remains
  • Religious pictures from Bengal and Eastern Bihar: more than illustrating pantheons / Claudine Bautze-Picron
  • Temple-building in the early medieval-medieval Bengal: revisiting contexts in Western Bengal / Sharmila Saha
  • The regional monetary identity of 'medieval Bengal' (thirteenth-sixteenth century CE): coin hoards, mint towns, and connectivity / Sutapa Sinha.