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    Legitimization Process in Tripuri State Formation: Accommodating Sanskritization & Primordial Culture
    (University of North Bengal, 2018-03) Chakraborty, Deepayan
    Researchers since the second half of the 20th Century have been emphasizing on the importance of legitimization as a causative behind early state formation. The present paper tries to examine the way the Tripuri kingship and the Tripura kingdom acquired legitimacy. Like similar other early states of India (including North East India) and South East Asia, sanskritization played its part as a legitimizing ideology in this early state too. Bestowing the kṣatriya status upon the Māṇikya kings, building Hindu temples, digging ponds, donating lands to the Brahmins, patronage given to the Bengali and, to a lesser extent, Sanskrit languages, etc, are instances of this process. However, one unique feature of the legitimization process in Tripura was the co-existence of the Hindu and primordial/tribal beliefs, and this is the most important theme of the present paper.
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    Upendra Nath Barman: The Rise of a leader from Regional to National Politics 1898 - 1988
    (University of North Bengal, 2015-03) Barman, Tushar Kanti
    Rise of a leader is not a new phenomenon from ancient period to still today in the whole world. Like other parts of the world India also not lagging behind on it. In India various leaders came from an assortment of fields which might be for nations, territory, community or any other issues. In· such cases Bengal also got many leaders from various issues. Like other political issues caste politics has also played a very crucial role in the politics of Bengal from colonial period to still today. In contrast northern part of Bengal also played very significant role, where some movements like Namasudra Movements, Rajbanshi Kshatriya Movement was held by some eminent caste leaders; among the leaders Upendra Nath Barman had played a very imperative role in the context of North Bengal as well as for the Nation. This paper is an attempt to observe the role of Upendra Nath Barman in circumstance of a Kshatriya Samity leader as well as a leader of a nation.