Jaina and Brahmanical Temples and Political Processes in a Forested Frontier of Early Medieval Southwestern Bengal: A Study of Purulia

In a significant section of available scholarship on pre-Islamic Bengal, a dominant tendency has been to generalize the patterns of historical trajectories of the great river valleys. This has resulted in many discrepancies, particularly in the context of the plateau-like portions of southwestern Be...

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Main Author: Prasad, Birendra Nath 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2020
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 188–214
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Puruliya / Jainism / Temple construction / Śaivism / Political change / History 600-1200
IxTheo Classification:AF Geography of religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
TG High Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Jharkhand
B Brahmanical temples
B Jaina temples
B pre-Islamic Bengal
B hero stones
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