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| Brahmanical Temples, Maṭhas, Agrahāras and a Buddhist Establishment in a Marshy and Forested Periphery of Two ‘Frontier’ States: Early Mediaeval Surma Valley (Sylhet and Cachar), c. 600 CE–1100 CE | ||
| 作者 | Prasad, Birendra Nath |
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| 出處題名 | Religions of South Asia |
| 卷期 | v.6 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2012 |
| 頁次 | 33 - 60 |
| 出版者 | Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/ |
| 出版地 | Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Birendra Nath Prasad is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, at BB Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow. |
| 關鍵詞 | Brahmanical monasticism; Buddhist monasticism; decline of Buddhism in Bengal; Islamization of eastern Bengal; pre-Islamic eastern Bengal |
| 摘要 | This article aims to understand the socio-economic and religious changes in early mediaeval Surma valley, and the role of Brahmanical and Buddhist religious institutions in effecting them. This valley was the most forested and marshiest part of Bengal. It received very heavy rains and was under substantial tribal influence. At the beginning of the period under study, it was a peripheral part of two fringe states. By the eleventh century ce a local state evolved, resulting from centuries of agrarian expansion. Brahmanical religious institutions played a very important role in effecting this transition. Well before the arrival of Islam in the eastern/north-easternmost sector of the Bengal delta, local society had devised its own ways to tame the jungle, cope with fluvial volatility, and cultivate rice, even in the marshy areas. These developments force us to question those historiographical models which explain the Islamization of eastern Bengal in terms of Islam being the ‘religion of the plough’ and ‘the harbinger of rice revolution’ in the region. |
| 目次 | Introduction 34 Geographical Background 37 Rulers, Temples and the Jungle: Brahamanical Temples and Maṭhas on the Agarian Frontiers of the Surma Valley 40 Janapada-Niveśa Centring on Temples and Maṭhas: Understanding Religious and Socio-Economic Dynamics in the Tenth Century CE 45 Changes by the Eleventh Century Ce : Local State Formation, Some Related Socio-Economic Processes, and Patronage to Brahmanical Temples and Cults by the State 52 Summing up the Surma Valley Experience and Its Historiographical Implications 55 Acknowledgements 56 References 56 |
| ISSN | 17512689 (P); 17512697 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 279 |
| 建檔日期 | 2016.12.30 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.05.05 |
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