Dear Indology List members,

Some of you may be interested in the following book:

Social History of Indian Buddhism: New Researches. Edited with an Introduction by Birendra Nath Prasad. Publisher: Research India Press, New Delhi, 2021. ISBN number: 978951711964.

 

Contents

1. Introduction.                                     Birendra Nath Prasad

2. A Happy Combination? Buddhism and Urbanism on the Fringes of the Western Ghats.                                     Gethin Rees

3. The Advent of Monastic Buddhist Prosociality in Central India in the First century BCE.                                      Matthew D. Milligan

4. The Artist, the Patron and the Public: Exploring the Influence of Local Agrarian Communities and their Fertility Cults on the Buddhist Art of Bharhut. 

                                                         Shreyashi Chaudhuri

5. Re-interpreting the Sacred Space at Sanghol: A Multidisciplinary Study.

                                                       Garima Kaushik

6. Images of Donors in the Buddhist art of Eastern India.

                                                      Claudine Bautze-Picron

7. The Social Bases of Patronage to Buddhism in Early Medieval Odisha: An Epigraphic Enquiry.

                                                     Umakant Mishra

8. Marching with People: Continuity and Changes in the Religious Tradition of Goddess Tārā.                              Elora Tribedy

 

 

Birendra Nath Prasad

Centre for Historical Studies

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.