The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Medieval South Asia : Contesting Narratives from the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin (Paperback)

A Dedicatory Note: The unsettling interrogative sensibilities of Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and transgression of the disciplinary boundaries

1 Introduction: Trouble of thinking about the archaeology of the early medieval and the medieval in Ganges?Brahmaputra?Meghna Basin

PART 1: Conceptual, methodological, and spatiotemporal domains of archaeology

2 Locating the medieval in South Asian archaeology: Resetting field methods and practices

3 The changing landscape of early medieval Indian history: Perspectives from archaeology

4 Engaging with the past beyond the comfort zone: Early medieval and medieval in the archaeological context of the north-western part of Bengal

PART 2: Settlements, landscapes, and interpretive frameworks

5 Changing patterns of agrarian development in early medieval North Bengal: A delineation from the inscriptions

6 Early medieval and medieval settlements on the littoral and active part of a delta: An archaeological study of the southwestern part of Bangladesh

7 Chronicles of perpetually reconfiguring entanglements: A precursory understanding of the landscape archaeology of Teesta Megafan of Bangladesh

PART 3: Pottery analyses and the spatiotemporal indexes

8 Pottery of Bengal during the early medieval period

9 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 context

10 Religious pictures from Bengal and Eastern Bihar: More than illustrating pantheons

11 Temple-building in the early medieval?medieval Bengal: Revisiting contexts in Western Bengal

12 The regional monetary identity of ‘medieval Bengal’ (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries CE): Coin hoards, mint towns, and connectivity