Museo de la Paz

Benoytosh Centenary

Volume/edited by Shyamalkanti Chakravarti. Calcutta, The Benoytosh Centenary Committee, 1996

The Benoytosh Centenary Committee, 1996, viii, 236 p.

I. Writings of Dr. Benoytosh Bhattacharya:

1. Primitive Buddhism to Mahayana.
2. Untouchability through Sanskrit eyes.
3. Sri Rabindranath Tagore.

II. Letters to Benoytosh:

1. Mahamahopadhyay Haraprasad Shastri.
2. Sir Jadunath Sarkar.
3. Sri K.N. Dikshit.
4. Dr. Nalini Kanta Bhattasali.

III. Life and bibliography: Dr. Benoytosh Bhattacharya—a unique personality/J.S. Pade. IV. Reminiscences:

1. Benoytosh Bhattacharya : some reminiscences/R.N. Mehta.
2. The profile of a great Indian/Arun Prokash Chatterjee.
3. An humble tribute/Govindagopal Mukhopadhyay.
4. Benoytosh : my father/Amiya Kumar Bhattacharya.
5. My grandfather, as I knew him/Tapashi Battacharya.
6. Shastri Villa and its tradition/Satyananda Laskar.

V. Archaeology, iconography and art:

1. Prehistoric art on Bone Antler from Tamluk/Kamal Kumar Kundu.
2. A note on two slabs relieved with mandalas of eight Bodhisattvas/Debala Mitra.
3. Avalokitesvara images of Eastern India/N.N. Bhattacharya.
4. My path/Leonardo Olazabal. The Vedic base of the Buddhist Goddess Mahapratisara/Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta.
5. Indian Buddhist iconography—Benoytosh’s contribution/Sipra Chakravarti.
6. A note on an unusual image of Ganesa/Vasant Choudhury.
7. The Saga of Indian sculptures/R.C. Sharma.
8. Religious thinking and practice in Eastern India as recorded in the early Indian literature and inscription/Sachindra Kumar Maity.
9. Vessantara Jataka from Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda/Ratan Parimoo.
10. Surgery in ancient India/Shyamalkanti Chakravarti.
11. Women in administration—evidence from early epigraphic records/Saikat Bandyopadhyay.
12. Women in the terracotta temples of Vishnupur/Barnali Mitra.
13. Conservation of terracottas/Chintamoni Kar.
14. Terracotta dolls of Bengal/Debasish Bandyopadhyay.
15. Chinese painting—a study in its history/A.K. Bhattacharya.
16. For ever Golconda diamonds/K.S.R. Murty.
17. Of masks and reality—in search of dialectics in theatre/Pabitra Sarkar.

VI. Trade and commerce:

1. Coastal and overseas trade in the Pre-Gupta Vanga and Kalinga/B.N. Mukherjee.
2. The growth of industries in ancient Bengal (600 A.D. to 1200 A.D.)/Nikhil Ranjan Parua.

VII. Language and literature:

1. Karna, Kunti and Kurukshetra/P.G. Bhattacharya.
2. The Sandesa Katha—a critical study/Asha Das.
3. Gangadhara Pathaka—a 17 century scholar from Gujarat/M.L. Wadeker.
4. English grammar vis-à-vis-stylistics/Premananda Pradhan.
5. The practice of Indian languages in Roman script—a critical view/Subrata Ganguly.

VIII. Education:

1. Why education/Subhransu Ghosh.
2. Literacy and development/Sakti P. Chakrabarti.

IX. Philosophy and political thoughts:

1. Samatha and Vipasyana : The Buddhist meditation/Ramakrishna T. Vyas.
2. Contemporary crisis and Indian value system/Ramaranjan Mukherjee.
3. Gift of the Magi/Sadhan Dasgupta.
4. Transcending evolutionism/K.S. Chaudhuri.
5. Calcutta and the growth of nationalism/Pratap Chandra Chunder.
6. Role of intellectuals outside of party political field/Arghya Kusum Dattagupta.
7. Yoga : the science of religion/Swami Anandamoy.
8. Yoga, Yajna, Dharma and Homeopathy/Satyapal Sharma.

X. Alternative medicine:

1. Alternative medicine in health and disease/H.L. Dhar.
2. Divine vision and reverse the aging process/M.S. Agarwal.
3. Mother divine and I—a spiritual voyage to personal understanding/Robert Goodman.
4. My path/Leonardo Olazabal.
5. Magnet therapy/Ghanashyam Singh Birla.
6. Use of hands to help or heal/C.V. Agarwal.
7. A new dimension in the treatment of multiple sclerosis/Balendu Prakash.
8. Dowsing : east and west (It’s role and significance for the year 2000 and beyond!)/Raoul Bedi.
9. Xenoestrogen plague of 21 century/Leslie Kenton.
10. Pyramid power from the hypothesis to therapy/Peter W. Meier.

XI. Astrology:

1. Astrology and genetical problem/A.B. Chaudhuri.
2. Homoepathy and Vedic astrology : a comparative analysis/D. Das.
3. Constellations and their significance to each planet/Saradindu Chanda.