CONTENTS
SETTLEMENTS IN ANCIENT BENGAL : SOME OBSERVATIONS
Nupur Dasgupta
BEYOND BOUNDARIES – TRAVELLERS ALONG THE KARAKORUM
Aloka Parasher-Sen
THE MATERIAL CULTURE AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS OF EAST GUJARAT
Atusha Bharucha Irani
STONE IMAGE OF JINA RSABHANĀ THA WITH ASTADIKPĀLAS IN DINAJPUR MUSEUM
Gerd JR Mevissen
WORSHIP OF THE BUDDHIST MOTHER GODDESS HARITI AT THE SVAYAMBHUNATH STUPA IN NEPAL
Isabell Johne
CAST COPPER COINS OF BENGAL : METROLOGY ESTABLISHED IN NEW FUNDS FROM CHANDRAKETUGARH
Pranab K Chattopadhyay
EPIGRAPHY AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC CULTURE IN BENGAL
Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq
WHAT IS ISLAMIC PAINTING?
ABM Husain
MARINE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ALONG THE SAURASHTRA COAST, WEST COAST OF INDIA AS
Gaur, Sundaresh and Sila Tripati
THE OPERATIVE MILIEU OF MERCHANTS AND THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN GUPTA BENGAL
Shahnaj Husne Jahan
AMERICANS IN CALCUTTA BAZAARS IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY : IMAGES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Sirajul Islam
HISTORY OF EARLY MUSLIM EASTERN INDIA : A STUDY OF SOME PERSO-ARABIC SOURCES
Md. Akhtaruzzaman
A USABLE PAST FOR A POST-NATIONAL PRESENT : GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA
David Ludden
THE MUHARRAM RIOT OF 1779 AND THE STRUGGLE FOR STATUS AND AUTHORITY IN EARLY COLONIAL CALCUTTA
PJ Marshall
THE POLITICIZATION OF A HOLY ACT : THE HAJ FROM THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT DUIRING COLONIAL TIMES
Saurabh Mishra
CHANGING GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH KOREAN HIGHER EDUCATION: EXPLORING SOME IMPACTS
AKM Ahsan Ullah
DEFINING THE FRONTIERS OF IDENTITY : BALANCING LANGUAGE AND RELIGION IN BANGLADESH
Smruti S Pattanaik
DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN BANGLADESH : THE ROLE OF OUTSIDE ACTORS
John Barkdull
GRAM SARKER
: EXPERIMENTS FOR PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE AT GRASSROOTS LEVEL
AMM Shawkat Ali
RULE OF LAW IN BANGLADESH
Mahmudul Islam
INNOVATIVE CONSERVATISM? 21ST CENTURY ASIA IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS
Imtiaz Hussain
EARLY CONSERVATION HISTORIES IN BENGAL AND BRITISH INDIA 1875-1922
Brett M Bennett
TOWARDS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF COLONIAL EAST BENGAL : PARADIGMS AND PRAXIS
Iftekhar Iqbal
WOMEN AND POLITICS IN BANGLADESH
Kamal Uddin Ahmed
BRITISH MUSLIMS: MIGRATION, SETTLEMENT AND IDENTITY
David Cheesman
A TRIBUTE TO MULK RAJ ANAND
Md. Mahmudul Hasan
PRE-VICTORIAN AND VICTORIAN REACTION TO BRITISH INDIA IN THE WORKS OF JAMES MILL, TENNYSON, AND RUSKIN
Jalal Uddin Khan
RABINDRANATH TAGORE : ENVISIONING HUMANISTIC EDUCATION AT SANTINIKATON (1902-12)
Kathleen M O’Connel
RANSLITERATION OR TRANSCRIPTION? Attempts at Bengali/ Arabic Transliteration from Historical and Linguistic Perspectives
Dennis Kurzon