Birendra Nath Prasad

Gebundenes Buch

Rethinking Bihar and Bengal

History, Culture and Religion

Beschreibung

This book discusses the history, culture and religion of Bihar & Bengal. Topics include: early historic urbanisation in Northern Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions and Buddhist monasticism; the survival of Buddhism in the 13th and 14th century AD; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal.

Autor

Birendra Nath Prasad is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he teaches social history of religion in India and Southeast Asia. His publications include Monasteries, Shrines and Society: Buddhist and Brahmanical Religious Institutions in India in their Socio-Economic Context (edited, Delhi, 2011); Buddhism in a Poly-Religious Context: An Archaeological History of Buddhist, Brahmanical and Jaina Religious Centres in Early Medieval Bihar and Bengal (Delhi, 2021); Social History of Indian Buddhism: New Researches (edited, Delhi, 2021, forth coming), and many peer-reviewed research articles in prestigious international journals such as Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (Oxford), Buddhist Studies Review (London), Religions of South Asia (London/Sheffield) and Berlin Indological Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781032117225
• ISBN-10: 1032117222
• Artikelnr.: 62226561