Votive Inscriptions on the Sculptures of Early Medieval Samataṭa-Harikela, Bengal: Explorations in Socio-religious History
In this paper, I attempt to look into the patterns of social patronage to Buddhism and Brahmanism in the Samataṭa-Harikela subregion of early medieval Bengal through the prism of votive inscriptions on sculptures. I have also looked into some of the social and religious processes that were in operat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2010, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-43 |
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Samataṭa-Harikela
B patterns of social patronage to Buddhism and Brahmanism B votive inscriptions B socio-economic and religious dynamics of pre-Islamic Bengal |
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| Summary: | In this paper, I attempt to look into the patterns of social patronage to Buddhism and Brahmanism in the Samataṭa-Harikela subregion of early medieval Bengal through the prism of votive inscriptions on sculptures. I have also looked into some of the social and religious processes that were in operation in this part of early medieval Bengal. I have argued that despite being part of the cultural and socio-economic matrix of early medieval Bihar and Bengal, Samataṭa-Harikela had some peculiarities of its own. That, however, does not justify treating this entire area as a ‘frontier’. This paper questions those historiographical models which explain the Islamization of this area in terms of Islam being the ‘harbinger of rice revolution’ in the same during the medieval period. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-2697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions of South Asia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/rosa.v4i1.27 |