Journal of Bengal Art: Vol. 24

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Journal of Bengal Art: Vol. 24

Enamul Haque (Editor)

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Contents: 1. A Burman palm leaf manuscript: Myanmar, 1885 (1297 M.E)/Andrea Loseries. 2. A study on Bhairava iconography of the Tel Valley, Odisha/Baba Mishra. 3. A short note on a recently discovered Lintel in Lakhisarai/Claudine Bautze-Picron. 4. An image of the sun god with planetary deities from Belkash, Purba Bardhaman district/Noor Bano Sattar. 5. Varna Jati and society in the Brhaddharma Purana/Durga Sankar Koley. 6. Ananda Coomaraswamy and his significant Buddhist sculptures from Sri Lanka/Janice Leoshko. 7. A rare (Hitherto Unreported) image of eighteen-armed Avalokitesvara from Gaya, South Bihar/KumKum Bandyopadhyay and Priyanku Chakraborty. 8. Archaism versus modernism: the small sculptures of Meera Mukherjee/Ursula Bickelmann. 9. Dedicatory inscriptions on the sculptures of Bodh Gaya, c. 4th-12th century A.D.: explorations in socio-religious history/Birendra Nath Prasad. 10. The temples of Puthia/Shreela Basu. 11. Dolls, display and changing discourse: a micro study of fairs in Howrah/Rituparna Basu. 12. Deeply rooted ritual: the plurality of sponsor couples in eastern Indian sculpture, c. eighth to thirteenth century and an explanatory hypothesis/Rob Linrothe. 13. A (Hitherto unpublished) late Mughal Mosque inscription of Bengal: an analytical look/Md. Abdur Rob, Sohag Ali and Md. Masood Imran. 14. An epigraphic journey through medieval Bengal/Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq. 15. Wood carvings of Bengal: a decorative stick from Calcutta/Shyamalkanti Chakravarti. 16. Pattern of occupations in the early medieval and late medieval period as reflected in the Terracotta plaques of contemporary brick-built temples of Bengal/Tithi Chanda. 17. Life and people of Bengal as seen by an European artist/Mahboob Alam. 18. Early farming communities in the Ganga plain: origin of agriculture, crops domestication and pastoralism/Md. Mizanur Rahman. 19. Revisiting a lost Jaina temple site in the Chhotanagpur Plateau region/Shubha Majumder and Pampa Biswas. 20. The ritual art of Tantra: Illustrations from the manuscript paintings in the Tantrasara of Krishnananda Agamavagisa/Madhu Khanna. 21. Gradable affiliations in Indian art: East-South axis/Thyagarajan Satyamurthy. 22. An introduction to the great Persian epic Shahnama and its collected manuscripts in Bangladesh/Najma Khan Majlis. 23. Emperor Jahangir’s role in developing Mughal art: an introduction/S M Saiful Islam.

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Enamul Haque

Professor Enamul Haque had his M.A. in History (Archaeology Group) from Dhaka (1960), Diploma in Museology from London (1964) and Doctorate in South Asian Art from Oxford (1973). For three decades since 1962 he served the Dhaka Museum and rose to be the Founder Director General of the Bangladesh National Museum, developing it to be the largest Museum in the Third World. He was for a year (1990) Secretary-in-charge of the Ministry of Culture of Bangladesh. He also taught Art History, Museology and National Heritage in the universities of Dhaka and Jahangirnagar, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, and the Independent University at Dhaka. An organizer of exceptional ability, he is the Founder Chairman (since 1995) and Academic Director of The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art (ICSBA) at Dhaka, convened four International Congresses on Bengal Art (1976, 1997, 1999 and 2001) and edits the Journal of Bengal Art. He was honoured by the Asiatic Society of Calcutta with the award of the Rama Prasad Chanda Birth Centenary Medal (1993) for his "conspicuous contribution in art and archaeology of Bengal". Earlier, the Asia Society of New York honoured him by electing as their Honorary International Councilor (1986-92). He served as the President of the International Council of Museum (ICOM) Asia Pacific Organization (1983-86). Among his publications, notables are Islamic Art Heritage of Bangladesh (1983) and Bengal Sculptures: Hindu Iconography (1992), the latter being a quantitative assessment of nearly two thousand sculptures now preserved in different parts of the world.

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