State Formation in Manbhum

Description

This study of State Formation in Manbhum is an outcome of meticulous fieldworks and is one of the very few that have studied the processes of the ‘Early State Formation in Manbhum’. The study area presently lies, in general, in Purulia, in West Bengal, India. The author has coagulated the archaeological evidences with the anthropological source materials in this study on state formation. This work endeavors brief theoretical discussions on the processes of early state formation. Spread over six chapters, this study presents an overview of the theories on state formation and fields some of the theoretical formulations in the specific context of early state formation in Manbhum. This work seeks to deal, in detail, with the two strands of early state formation unique in Manbhum: the Sarak-Jain strand and the Hinduization-Sanskritaization-Rajputaization strand and ends with some important conclusive remarks. Written with enriched methodological recipe this book may open a new horizon and may be valuable to the future researchers working in the similar fields.