History of Dantan needs to be rewritten. Many scholars like Haraprasad Sastri, Nagendranath Basu, A. K. Banerjee, B. N. Mukherjee made a number of guesses on Dantan. Long ago Nihar Ranjan Ray clearly identified Dantan with the...
Read MoreAtanunandan Maity For a long period of time in history, the Kharagpur Railway Station of the South Eastern Railway Division of Indian Railway has remained the longest platform (1072 meters) in the world (it has lost its glory in...
Read MoreBiswajit Ghosh, Bhatter College Private ITI, Paschim Medinipur Temples are the most significant and typical monuments of architecture of an area and admirably sum up and represent the subtle values of a culture. Elaborations of...
Read MoreDr. Bratati Sen, Kolkata This paper is dedicated to Late Dr. Asok Dutta, retd. Reader, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Calcutta, under whose supervision the work was carried out and who passed away during the project....
Read MorePratap De, Retired Teacher and Independent Researcher PDF Version Introduction In an article in JBORS, Vol XXI (1935), at p.42, no.178 Rahul Sankrityayan reported about a Sanskrit anthology in palm-leaf codex at Ngor monastery...
Read MoreTarun Tapas Mukherjee Introduction With the discovery of a gigantic monastery (60Mx60M) by Prof. Asok Datta and his team from the Department of Archaeology, Calcutta University following the excavations undertaken in six phases...
Read MorePijushkanti Sarkar, State Govt. Employee Dandabhukti was a prominent territorial sub-division of Ancient Bengal during the period of 6th Century A.D. to 12th Century AD that drew attraction of the historians like Acharya J. N....
Read MoreSreecheta Mukherjee Moghalmari, a non-descript village on the south-west border of West Medinipur and West Bengal, has been recently brought to light as a vast archaeological site of early medieval Buddhist settlement having a...
Read MoreChitrolekha was conceived as an online platform dedicated especially to documenting cultural heritage of Bengal. In the year 2011 we published a Special Issue on the Arts and Crafts of Bankura and in the year 2012 we published...
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