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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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    Situating the Historical Chronicles of Tripura in Traditional Indian Historiography
    (University of North Bengal, 2017-03) Chakraborty, Deepayan
    The sub-discipline of history named historiography is concerned with the history of history writing. India had more than one genres of traditional history-writing before the establishment of the Colonial British rule in the Subcontinent. Though initially not taken up seriously by the scholars of the new ruling class, some from within that group soon found them useful for studying the ancient and medieval history of the country. Situated in the southernmost corner of North East India, the province of Tripura too can boast of a strong tradition of historiography. Mostly written . in Bengali language, they are essential for undertaking any research on the history of the Medieval Kingdom of Tripura, particularly from its formation in c. I J1h Century CE up to the end of the 18th Century CE. This paper tries to locate the traditional historiography of Tripura within the earlier'-mentioned Pan-Indian Traditional Historiography. It will also try to bring out the unique features of the historical chronicles of Tripura.