History Today No. 16 (2015)

Editorial Articles About Writing History 1 G.B. Deglurkar Some Reflections on the Conundrum of the Decline of Buddhism in 6 K.T.S. Sarao The Prahasitesvara Group of Temples at Sambor Prei Kuk (lshanapura) 18 in Central Cambodia Sachchidanand Sahai

Indian Constitution: An Organic Evolution of a Modern State 24 Gopal Mishra and Nishi Misra

The Concept of Gajalakshmi in Ancient India with Special 31 Reference to Gajalakshmi of Kausambi Suniti Pandey Kampil: Tradition, Literature and Archaeology 36 D.P. Tewari

Situating the Alavikas and Kantarakas in Ancient India 45 Baba Mishra Environment: Culture, Tradition and Practices 57 Rim Jhim Sharma Asugarh Sites in Western Odisha: An Archaeological Study 67 Sakir Hussain and Subodh Mendaly Reassessing the Nature of Land Relations and Donations under the Maitrakas of 72 Valabhi in the Light of the Virdi Copper Plates of King Kharagraha I Pankaj Sharma

Visual Imagery of Navagrahas at Khidrapur in and their 76 Significance in Religious Art Gopal joge, Shantanu Vaidya and Shrikani Ganvir

Vrishni Cult in South India 82 Haripriya Rangarajan and Vinay Kumar Gupta

Redefining Archaeology in Kerala: Discoveries and Their Significance 86 Vysakh A.S.

Sun Temple – A View 90 Ranjan Kumar Singh

Architecture and Sculptural Art of Omal Somal Devi 94 Temple, District Sikar, Rajasthan Pankaj Dharendra, Neeraj Tripathi and Vineet Godhal A Unique Multi-Bore Cannon from Daulatabad , Maharashtra 98 Tejas Garge

Ethno-Archaeological Study of Gunpowder Production in Goa 103 Abhijit Ambekar and Kishore Raghuvansh

Palace Hall Uncovered in Excavations at Kumbla (Arikkadi) Fort, 108 Kasaragod District, Kerala Ajit Kumar, Rajesh S.V., Abhayan G.S., Akinori Yusegi, Yasuji Shimizu, Ananthu V. Dev, Muhammed Fasalu K., Renjinimol M.N. and Haseen Raja R.

The Civilization and the Culture at Odds 111 Devendra Singh

The Unfinished Saga of Kurma Avatar 121 Smurailatpam Sujata Devi and Preeti Panjwani

The Equation of Warren Hastings and His Councillors: Repercussions 125 on Benares Zamindary Shreya Pathak

Establishment of World‘s First Religious Parliament and Socio- 129 Religious Revolution in Karnataka P. Nagabhushanagoud

Jama-Nima to Suit: A Voyage of Historical Costumes (1850 to 1950 CE) 134 Nitin Hadap

Foundation of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company 139 Rita Bhambi

Indian Temples - Where Art Becomes faith 147 Swaptik Chowdhury

Notes and News Ancient Brahmi Script on the Neolithic Axes 151 P. Rajendran

The First Ever Aulikara Coin of Simhavarman 154 Devandra Handa

th th Chitrakoot: A Historical Perspective (from 15 Century BCE to 13 155 Century CE) Mahendra K. Upadhyay

The Cult of Seven Sisters: Archaeological and Traditional Evidence 158 P.K. Nayak and Biswajit Pradhan

Book Reviews 162

Grover, Amrita and Anju Grover Chaudhary (ed.), 2015, Rama Janmabhoomi: Professor B.R. Grover’s Analysis of Revenue Records and Historical Facts Vandana Kaushik

Nirmal Kumar (ed.), 2015, Essays in Medieval Ankit Agarwal

Profile of the History and Cultural Society 164 Report of the XXXVII Annual Conference of Indian History and 169 Cultural Society

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