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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 1940 (Letters)

1941

Along the eastern side of the hill (known in the records of the Forest Department as the Bhatera Hills) and just by the side of the Sylhet-Kulaurd branch line of the Assam-Bengal Railway between the mile-posts -24 3 and d 4-lies what was to all intents and purposes a deserted hill-fort with brick-built stairs to reach the level of the fort. [...] 2 From the nomenclature of the family titles and the names of the persons as well as most of the place-names mentioned in both the coppeplates it appears that the land was a part of Bengal and the persons were Bengalees.1940] TWO COPPER-PLATE GRANTS FROM BnA. [...] The Santals Mundas and Hos all speak languages belonging to the Mon-Khmer group of the Austric languages of which Pater Schmidt found relics among the forest tribes of Pegu Malacca and Indo-China and along the middle Salwin the Nicobars and part of the Philippines and Oceania. [...] Roy 1 has traced the wanderings of the Mundas by their traditions and pointed out that many of the names of the enemies of the Aryans mentioned in the Rg-Veda are to be found among the Mundas and allied tribes at the present day —evidence that the writer is able to corroborate from further examples. [...] Hero as at Nandup and Chandar three parallel runs are found : the most northernly follows the crest of the spur south-east of Roam ; the centre which is the most important the flank of the next ridge to the south while the third is below Sideswar itself.
history
Pages
100
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Survivals of the Indus Culture
61-iii M.E., D.H. Gordon view
Some Observations on Two Copper-Plate Grants from Bhāterā Sylhet District Assam
73-78 Umesh Chaudhuri view
The Ancient Workers of Western Dhalbhum
79-vi E.F.O. Murray view
Panegyric of Malaivamma
105-118 Chintaharan Chakravarti view
Philosophy of Rural Reconstruction in China
119-138 John Grant view
Reviews of Books
139-147 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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