The archaeology of early medieval and medieval South Asia contesting narratives from the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin
A Dedicatory Note: The unsettling interrogative sensibilities of Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and transgression of the disciplinary boundaries1 Introduction: Trouble of thinking about the archaeology of the early medieval and the medieval in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna BasinPART 1: Conceptual, methodolog...
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Abingdon, Oxon, New York
Taylor & Francis Group
2023
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Archaeology
> Archaeological theory
> Archaeology by period / region
> Archäologie einer Periode / Region
> Archäologische Theorie
> Asian history
> Asiatische Geschichte
> HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
> HISTORY / General
> Regional geography
> Regional studies
> Regionale Geographie
> Regionalstudien / Internationale Studien
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
> Bangladesh
> Antiquities
> South Asia
> History
> India
> Indischer Subkontinent
> Indien
> Bangladesch
> Gangesebene
> Brahmaputratal
> Mittelalter
> Archäologie
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| Zusammenfassung: | A Dedicatory Note: The unsettling interrogative sensibilities of Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and transgression of the disciplinary boundaries1 Introduction: Trouble of thinking about the archaeology of the early medieval and the medieval in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna BasinPART 1: Conceptual, methodological, and spatiotemporal domains of archaeology 2 Locating the medieval in South Asian archaeology: Resetting field methods and practices3 The changing landscape of early medieval Indian history: Perspectives from archaeology4 Engaging with the past beyond the comfort zone: Early medieval and medieval in the archaeological context of the north-western part of BengalPART 2: Settlements, landscapes, and interpretive frameworks5 Changing patterns of agrarian development in early medieval North Bengal: A delineation from the inscriptions6 Early medieval and medieval settlements on the littoral and active part of a delta: An archaeological study of the southwestern part of Bangladesh7 Chronicles of perpetually reconfiguring entanglements: A precursory understanding of the landscape archaeology of Teesta Megafan of BangladeshPART 3: Pottery analyses and the spatiotemporal indexes8 Pottery of Bengal during the early medieval period9 Analysing the pottery from the Brahmaputra Valley: Issues within archaeology and history (seventh to fifteenth centuries CE)PART 4: Material culture and monumental remains in context10 Religious pictures from Bengal and Eastern Bihar: More than illustrating pantheons11 Temple-building in the early medieval-medieval Bengal: Revisiting contexts in Western Bengal12 The regional monetary identity of 'medieval Bengal' (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries CE): Coin hoards, mint towns, and connectivity 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. 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 largely ignored in and excluded from the dominating, institutionalized, and hegemonic disciplinary discourses. The volume offers contesting insights, polemical narratives, and new data from archaeological contexts to initiate a debate on many foundational premises of archaeological and historical narratives. It focuses on the much-neglected region of the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin as a spatial frame to do this and studies themes such as spatial and temporal scales of concepts and methods, multi-scaler factors and processes of continuity and changes, the settlement archaeology of the alluvial landscape, changing patterns of agrarian transformation, and material cultures, including coins, inscriptions, pottery, and sculptures, in their contexts in sub-regional, regional, and supra-regional intersections. Dedicated to historian Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, this volume presents a crucial and unprecedented intervention in the study of the early medieval and the medieval periods. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of archaeology, ancient history, medieval history, water history, earth sciences, palaeoecology, historical ecology, epigraphy, art history, material culture studies, Indian history, and South Asian studies in general |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Interessenniveau: 01, General/trade: For a non-specialist adult audience. (01) |
| Beschreibung: | xxxi, 373 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781138320925 978-1-138-32092-5 9781032374826 978-1-032-37482-6 |