INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

Jainism in Early Bengal: Archaeological Prospective 

Illustrated lecture by Shri Shubha Majumdar, Deputy Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Kolkata Circle

Chair: Dr. B.M. Pande

 

Several archaeological discoveries in the 19th and 20th centuries by British administrators and later Indian as well as foreign scholars have authenticated that Jainism has had a long history in different parts of early Bengal. The speaker will speak about his the work carried out over a period of 6 years to put together a comprehensive picture about Jainism in early Bengal vis-à-vis its gradual development, the features of Jaina art and iconography as well as temple architecture