Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History

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Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History publishes research ARTICLES and SHORT NOTES in English on History and its allied sub-disciplines and is published annually. It considers original research articles based on interpretation of freshly retrieved information or re-interpretation of existing database on the subjects. Review articles based on critical assessment of published database on specific themes are also accepted. Karatoya is a refereed and peer reviewed journal, published annually by the Department of History, North Bengal University. This is also an UGC approved journal of Arts and Humanities with serial No. 42512.

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    Dynamics of Religious Transformation of the Tamang Community of the Sub-Himalaya: Historical Perspective
    (University of North Bengal, 2021-03) Lama, Sudash
    Study of religion and cultural change has always cherished the historian and ethnologist. The Tamang have been the subject of study for historians, ethnologists and philologists for many decades. The cultural peculiarity and ethnographic distinctiveness has attracted the scholar. The present paper intends to highlight the imbibed religious transformative character of animism to Buddhism. It also attempted to explore the reasons for the cultural shift of the tamang from animism to Buddhism.
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    Buddhist Paintings of Darjeeling: Identification and Interpretation
    (University of North Bengal, 2015-03) Lama, Sudash
    The time has not yet come to write a history of Buddhist art. Such a study needs a detailed description of all the collections of Buddhist art preserved in different parts of the country and outside the country. The Buddhist painting of Darjeeling characterized the pantheon of northern Buddhism. It is very difficult task to distinguish and classify the host of many-armed and many-headed divine beings, armed with whole arsenal of warlike attributes, the numerous figures of saintly lamas, abbots of monasteries, who appears on painting side by side number of religious symbols gives multiple meaning and disseminate the idea of direct intuition along with ethnographic variation.