Explore Ancient India

Author - Biswarup Chatterjee.                          Down the ages, many great men came to the Indian soil. Generations of people remember them for their social, political and religious contributions. To us, they act as the Pole-Star who provides us with strength, inspiration, direction, at the hour of crises. Indeed, Lord Buddha was one of such pole stars whose life and messages had been instrumental behind the foundation, growth and progress of human civilization. But, it is a truism that people of the later generations could know hardly about the preachings of Buddha in the absence of king Aśoka, the third king of the Mauryan Empire. At one level, coming at close proximity with Lord Buddha, a metamorphosis took place in the mind of Asoka so much so that he gave up the course of violence forever. At another leave!, Aśoka erected lots of pillars, though only nineteen are survive to let the world know the valuab...

      Author - BISWARUP CHATTERJEE.             Bhadrapur, formerly known as 'Bhadur' Latitude: 24.25948 N 24°15'34.11036" Longitude: 87.94941 E 87°56'57.87492" , is an ancient as well as a prospering village of Birbhum district under West Bengal, India. The village occupies an important position in the history of Bengal, due to a controversial as well as a historical character was born in this village and letter on became famous in the history of Bengal, who is known as Maharaja (King) Nandakumar, probably born in 1705 CE. The king had an incredible sense of patriotism and nationalism, though a number of historians has referred to the patriotic thoughts of Nandakumar as his personal selfishness. It is true that Nandakumar couldn't accept the superiority as well as the principal of Sirajuddolla, the then Nawab of Bengal. He wanted the downfall of the Nawab, parallelly he was also against the British rule in his country, rather he was in favou...

  Author - Biswarup Chatterjee.     The north-western part of present-day Bangladesh and Northern part of West Bengal is generally known as the North Bengal region. The Bangladesh part denotes the Rajshahi and Rangpur division. In general, it refers to the region north of the Padma river and west of the Jamuna river. The West Bengal Part denotes the Jalpaiguri division and the Malda division together. Now this Jalpaiguri division consists of five districts viz., Alipurduar, CoochBehar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Kalimpong. Among these, one of the most popular as well as prosperous district is CoochBehar district, which is situated on the North-Eastern border of West Bengal and broadly surrounded by the Jalpaiguri to the north, Assam and Bangladesh to the east, Bangladesh and Jalpaiguri to the south and Jalpaiguri to the west. Cooch Behar district belongs to Jalpaiguri Presidency under the state of West Bengal. The Tista, Jaldhaka, Torsa, Kaljani, and Ridak etc are ...

                             Explore Ancient India  Name of The Authors - Biswarup Chatterjee  & Satabdi Barman Abstract            Feudalism is a term historian first used to describe the political, social, and economic system of the European Middle Ages. That system was the world of lords, vassal knights, and serfs characteristic of Europe from the tenth to thirteenth centuries. In exchange for homage and military service, vassals received land from their lords. These lands became their manors, and serfs worked them. The lords and their vassals constituted a privileged nobility, while the serfs lived in a state of servitude.           Historians also use feudalism to describe India during the early medieval age. But the usefulness of this term is much debated, because conditions on the ground varied from place to place, not only in Europe but ...

Author - Biswarup Chatterjee                       THE CHILARAI KOT SITE FALLS WITHIN THE ANDARAN-PHULBARI G.P.   in the Tufanganj subdivision of the Cooch Behar district. Cooch Behar district belongs to Jalpaiguri presidency in the state of West Bengal. The district is broadly surrounded by the districts of Jalpaiguri to the north and west and Alipurduar to the north. Bangladesh and Assam surround the region to the south and east. The Tista, the Jaldhaka, the Torsa, the Kaljani, the Raydak and Gadadhar are the main water channels of this district (Majumdar 1977).                  Local tradition suggests that Chilarai was the younger brother of king Naranǎrǎyaṇa. His original name was Śukladhavaja, the chief general of the king. He was known for courage, heroism and guile. For his quick attack and sharp military wit, Śukladhavaja was given the title Chilarai. I...