• ISBN13: 9788121225113
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
• Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: January 1, 2021
• Pages: 217
• Original Price: INR 440.0
• Language: English
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• Item Weight: 392 grams
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The Collector of Dacca, in his letter No. 1440, dated the 24th April 1918, forwarded to the author for examination and report 346 silver coins of the Bengal Sultans found in the wall of a deserted house belonging to one Mahendra Kumar Das of the village of Ketun, under the Rupganj Police Station of Dacca District. After careful examination, these coins were acquired by Government under the Treasure Trove Act and allotted to different Museums. The report asked for by the Collector of Dacca necessitated a detailed study of this unique find. With the progress of his investigations, he was more and more struck by the confusion that prevailed in the field of Bengal numismatics of this particular period even in standard works on the subject, and also by the amount of correction and new information that this new find afforded. He was therefore in theend led to prepare the present monograph. Numismatic finds have been unimportant and few in numbers, numismatists dealing with Bengal coins fewer still, Arabic scholarships seem to have declined and the zeal displayed in hunting up unpublished inscriptions of the Muhammadan Sultans of Bengal has almost disappeared.

Bhattasali completed his master's degree in 1912. He then joined the Comilla Victoria College as a teacher in history. After that he joined Balurghat High School as its headmaster. In July 1914, he joined Dhaka Museum (later Bangladesh National Museum) as its curator, a position he held until his death in 1947. He wrote reports and research papers on the contribution of important objects to the history and chronology of ancient Bengal. East Bengal (Vanga-Samatata) was his special field of study. He wrote a few books on Bangla literature. A collection of his short stories, "Hashi o Asru" was published in 1915 and his edition of the first book of a unique manuscript of the Krittivasi Ramayan in 1936. He taught Bengali literature, paleography, and history at the University of Dhaka.