JOURNAL
                               OF
                 THE ASIATIC SOCIETY
                         VOLUME LXIII  No. 4  2021
                       THE ASIATIC SOCIETY
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              ISSN 0368-3308
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                              CONTENTS
               ARTICLES
                Gopinathpur Temple Inscription at the Time of
                Gajapati Kapilendradeva
                  Subrata Kumar Acharya             1
                Geometry in the Works of Äryabhaöa I and its Relevance
                in the Field of the Present Day High School Geometry
                  Sanatan Koley                    29
                Early Pandemics in History
                  Mukta Raut Dey and Atanu Ray     49
                Lahore Suba Revenue Statistics c.1690
                  Naseer Ahmad Mir                 65
                A Comparative Study of the History of Different
                Junior Doctors’ Movements during 1983-2019
                  Nataraj Malakar                  85
                Political Detainees in Their Jails
                  Laurent Metzger                  109
                Bodding’s Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore
                vis-à-vis Vidyasagar’s understanding
                of Anthropological Study
                  Archana Banerjee                 131
               GLEANINGS FROM THE PAST
                Shoulder-headed and other forms of stone implements
                in the Santal Parganas
                  Rev. P. O. Bodding               155
                         NOTES ON GLEANINGS
                            Further Study on the Stone Tools Collected By
                            Rev. P. O. Bodding from Dumka Area,
                            in the Present Day State of Jharkhand
                                Soumyajit Das, Debasis K. Mondal and Ranjana Ray        161
                         BOOK REVIEW
                            Romila Thapar, Voices of Dissent: An Essay,
                            Seagull Books, 2020; London, New York, Calcutta
                                Susnata Das                                             173
                            Ranabir Chakravarti, The Pull towards the Coast and
                            Other Essays : The Indian Ocean History and the
                            Subcontinent before 1500 CE, Primus Books, Delhi, 2020,
                                Krishnendu Roy                                          177
                            Amrita Mondal, Owning Land, Being Women:
                            Inheritance and Subjecthood, De Gruyter Studies
                            in Global Asia, Vol. 2, Berlin, Boston
                            Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021
                                Prasanta Ray                                            181
                            Nirban Basu, Trade Union, Working Class Politics
                            and Protest, Bengal: 1937-1947, Progressive Publishers,
                            Kolkata, 2019
                                Raj Sekhar Basu                                         185