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The Bengal renaissance refers to a social reform movement during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the region of Bengal in undivided India during the period of British rule. Historian Nitish Sengupta describes it as having started with reformer and humanitarian Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1775–1833), and ended with Asia's first Nobel laureate ...
History of Bengal, vol. I, (ed. by RC Majumdar) The History and Culture of the Indian People, (ed. RC Majumdar) Comprehensive History of India, vol. II (ed. KA Nilakanta Shastri) Comprehensive History of India, vol. III (ed. RC Majumdar) Jaina Art and Architecture, (ed. A Ghosh).
At the heart of the Calcutta Historical Society's endeavors lies its journal, Bengal, Past & Present, launched in the early years of the society's establishment. Through its journal, Bengal, Past & Present, which has been used in historical research, shedding light on the diverse facets of Kolkata's history.
The Early History of Bengal, Dacca, 1924. Champa, Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East, Vol.I, Lahore, 1927. ISBN 0-8364-2802-1. Outline of Ancient Indian History. 1927; Arab Invasion of India 1931. Suvarnadvipa, Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East, Vol.II, Calcutta, 1938. The History of Bengal, 1943. ISBN 81-7646-237-3.
The Khalji dynasty was of Turko-Afghan [7] [8] [9] origin whose ancestors, the Khalaj, are said to have been initially a Turkic people or a Turkified people [10] of possibly of Indo-Iranian origin [11] who migrated together with their ancestors the Hunas and Hephthalites from Central Asia, [12] into the southern and eastern regions of modern-day Afghanistan as early as 660 CE, where they ruled ...
Kaivarta rebellion...was a critical event in the early history of Bengal. It temporarily ousted the Palas from their ancestral territory of Varendra and decisively weakened their control over subordinate rulers. It also paved the way for their fall in the hands of another power, the Senas, who rose after the event.
The table found in the traditional arithmetic of Bengal contained 1260 cowries instead of one silver coin (Purana or Dramma). That is, the ratio of Purana and Kapardaka is 1: 1280. Reliable evidence of the widespread use of cowrie in early medieval Bengal has been found in excavations at Paharpur and Kalgang (Bihar near Bhagalpur). Early ...
The city was home to the ancient independent Buddhist kingdoms of Bengal like Samatata and Harikela. [1] It later fell under of the rule of the Gupta Empire, the Gauda Kingdom, the Pala Empire, the Chandra Dynasty, the Sena Dynasty and the Deva Dynasty of eastern Bengal. [2] Arab Muslims traded with the port from as early as the 9th century.