Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History, Vol. 12

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Note from the Editorial Desk

On behalf of the Department of History, University of North Bengal, it is my privilege to present to the readers the Volume 12 (2019) of the Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History. The journal has incorporated the research papers from ancient Indian History, Medieval Indian History and Modern Indian History and contemporary as well. The Volume 12 is being published after all the articles having been refereed and peer reviewed with the ISSN 2229-4880. The Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History is a UGC Approved Journal of Arts and Humanities with Serial No. 42512

The editor of the journal does not judge for the facts stated, opinions expressed and conclusions reached is entirely that of the authors concern and the editor of the journal accepts no responsibility for the same.

It is my solemn duty to express my gratitude to our Honourable Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Finance Officer for their generous concern on “Academic Endeavour’. I am thankful to my colleagues of the Department of History for their warm encouragement and necessary cooperation for publishing this journal. Dr. Tahiti Sarkar associate editor of this volume deserved huge appreciation for her constant help in publishing this volume.

I am also grateful to all the contributors for providing valuable research papers. Last but not least, the Officials and the Staffs of the North Bengal University Press deserve heartiest thanks for their cooperation in printing the journal within limited span of time.

Dr. Dahlia Bhattacharya (Editor-in-Chief)

Dr. Tahiti Sarkar (Associate Editor)



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    Sahib’s Nautch Girl: Colonial Archaeology and the Identity Formation of A Bronze Girl Statue From Mohenjodaro
    (University of North Bengal, 2019-03) Kumar, Ashish
    The paper studies the process of identity formation of the Harappanartifacts (mainly, bronze girl statue from Mohenjodaro) under the colonial archaeologists. John Marshall and his fellow archaeologists popularized the term nautch girl or dancing girl for the bronze girl statue by connecting it to the public dancer-prostitutes and devadasis. They attributed this statue the identity of a dark-skin aboriginal (negro) girl of kulli or baluchi ethnicity. The nude body of the bronze girl statue captured the imagination of the colonial archaeologists, who applied the theories of racial differences, inverted growth in Indian art, and the feminine Hinduism for the study of the Harappanartifacts including terracotta female figurines, male stone images and the bronze girl statue. The paper argues that the bronze girl statue was culturally reconstructed in the writings of the European scholars, who also showed the possibilities of using the later date Sanskrit Hindu literature for the study of the Harappan civilization.