HISTORY OF Early in Regional Perspectives (up to c. 1200 CE)

Vol. 1

ARCHAEOLOGY POLITICAL HISTORY POLITY

Foreword by

Romila Thapar

EDITORS ABDUL MOMIN CHOWDHURY RANABIR CHAKRAVARTI

1952 ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BANGLADESH CONTENTS

Foreword vii Romila Thapar Preface ix Anisuzzaman Acknowledgment xi

Project Implementation Committee Editorial Board xiv Contributors xv A Note on Diacritics xviii Introduction xxiii

1. Historical Geography 1 Abdul Momin Chowdhury and Aksadul Alam

2. People of Early Bengal: An Uncharted Territory 35 Ranjit Kumar Bhattacharyya

ARCHAEOLOGY

3. Archaeological Cultures: An Overview of Pre-literate Phase Introduction 59 3.1 61 Bishnupriya Basak 3.2 Bangladesh 80 Shahnaj Husne Jahan 4. Settlement Patterns: Pre and Proto Historie Phase 95 Md. Mozammei Hoque 5. Select Archaeological Sites Introduction 127 5.1 Antichak 131 Rajat Sanyal 5.2 144 Shahnaj Husne Jahan XX

5.3 Bodhgaya 167 Rajat Sanyal 5.4 177 Sharmi Chakraborty 5.5 Jagaddala 194 Md. Mahabub-ul Alam 5.6 and : Northern West Bengal 211 Sheena Panja 5.7 Mahasthan 224 Jean-ffanpois Salles 5.8 263 Mokammal H Bhuiyan 5.9 281 Rajat Sanyal 5.10 Nalanda 291 Rajat Sanyal 5.11 Northwestern Bangladesh: Sites and Settlements 317 Swadhin Sen 5.12 Paharpur 351 Swadhin Sen and Md. Shafiqul Alam 5.13 377 Kaushik Gangopadhyaya 5.14 Sabhar 387 Md. Mozammei Hoque 5.15 Southwestern Bangladesh: Archeological Explorations 405 Md. Shafiqul Alam Appendix I 416 Rethinking the Archaeological Remains of Bharat Bhayna Afroza Khan Mita and AK M Syfur Rahman 5.16 Tamluk 425 Kaushik Gangopadhyaya 5.17 Vikrampur 441 Sufi Mostafizur Rahman, M. Mamun Dewan, Muhammad Mahbubul Alam, Mohammad Shohrab Uddin, M. Awlad Hossain; Chai Huanbo, Li Yiyuan, Mo Linheng and Yuan Wei xxi

5.18 Wari-Bateshwar 467 Sufi Mostafizur Rahman and Muhammad Habibulla Pathan Appendix II 489 Excavations at Wari-Bateshwar: 2016-17 Md. Mahabub-ul Alam

POLITICAL HISTORY AND POLITY

6. Early Bengal (up to c. 3rd Century CE) 499 Abdul Momin Chowdhury

7. Bengal and the Gupta Realm 511 Abdul Momin Chowdhury

8. Threshold of Regional Political Entity 529 Abdul Momin Chowdhury

9. Emerging Political Entities in South- 551 (Vanga--) Shariful Islam Gupta Period 557 Post-Gupta Period 563 The Rätas 572 The Näthas 580 The Khadgas 583 The Early Devas 596 The Candras 610 The Varmans 642 The Harikela Rulers 659 The Later Devas 671

10. Päla Realm: Making of a Regional Political Power 691 Abdul Momin Chowdhury Matsyanyayam and the Rise of the Pälas 691 Gopäla I 702 Dharmapäla 706 Devapäla 720 Mahendrapäla 730 Surapäla I 735 Gopäla II 739 xxii

End of the Ascendency: Shift in Dynastie Line 743 Näräyanapäla-Vigrahapäla II 749 Mahipäla I 759 Nayapäla and Vigrahapäla III 772 Mahipäla II and the Kaivarta Rebellion 778 Rämpäla: Temporary Revival 788 Dying State of the Päla Realm 800 Appendix III 812 The Kamboja Gaudapatis Appendix IV 817 Location of Rämävati Appendix V 820 Genealogy and Chronology of the Päla rulers

11. The Sena Rule: Towards the Integration of Sub-regions 833 Abdul Momin Chowdhury and Chitta Ranjan Misra

12. State Formation and Polity 857 Ranabir Chakravarti

Bibliography 899

Abbreviations 938

Index 939