State Formation in Manbhum

This study of State Formation in Manbhum is an outcome of meticulous fieldworks and is one of the very few that have studied the processes of the ‘Early State Formation in Manbhum’. The study area presently lies, in general, in Purulia, in West Bengal, India. The author has coagulated the archaeological evidences with the anthropological source materials in this study on state formation. This work endeavors brief theoretical discussions on the processes of early state formation. Spread over six chapters, this study presents an overview of the theories on state formation and fields some of the theoretical formulations in the specific context of early state formation in Manbhum. This work seeks to deal, in detail, with the two strands of early state formation unique in Manbhum: the Sarak-Jain strand and the Hinduization-Sanskritaization-Rajputaization strand and ends with some important conclusive remarks. Written with enriched methodological recipe this book may open a new horizon and may be valuable to the future researchers working in the similar fields. Dr. Debarati Ghosh (M.Phil., Jadavpur University, Ph.D., Calcutta University) is an Associate Professor in Political Science in Gobardanga Hindu College under the then Calcutta University, presently under the West Bengal State University. She has, to her credit, a few research papers published in edited books and participated in a number of national and international seminars and workshops. She also creditably participated in the World Anthropology Congress in Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar in 2023 where she presented a research paper in one of the panels of the Congress. Her area of research interest is archaeology and political anthropology.