Rethinking Bihar and Bengal: History, Culture and Religion

By Birendra Nath Prasad

This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithilā plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Mathas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century AD; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032117222
• ISBN13: 9781032117225
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"