Rethinking Bihar and Bengal

1. Urbanization in Early Historic Vaisali c. 600 BCE-400 CE 2. The Socio-Religious Dimensions of Dedicatory Inscriptions on Sculptures Donated to a Buddhist Establishment in Early Medieval Magadha: Kurkihar, c. 800 CE -1200 CE 3. A Folk Tradition Integrated into Mahayana Buddhism: Some Observations on the Votive Inscriptions on Sculptures of Pu??esvari/Pur?esvari/Pu?yesvari Discovered in the Kiul-Lakhisarai Area, Bihar 4. The Social Bases of Patronage to the Vikramasila Mahavihara: An Epigraphic Enquiry 5. Evolution of the Social Bases of Patronage to the Sacred Complex of Mandara Hill: An Inscriptional Enquiry 6. Brahmanical Temples, Mathas, Agraharas and a Buddhist Establishment in a Marshy and Forested Periphery of Two 'Frontier' States: Early Medieval Surma Valley (Sylhet and Cachar), c. 600 CE-1100 CE 7. A 'Nalanda Monk' in the Late Thirteenth-Early Fourteenth Century India, Tibet, China and Korea: A Note on the 'Poetic Inscription' on a Korean Stupa Erected in the Memory of Dhyanabhadra 8. Pilgrimage to Gaya, c. 1200 CE -1550 CE: A Study of Some Sanskrit Inscriptions Discovered at Gaya