Specialisation:

Early Indian (up to 1300 CE) Society, Economy and Polity

Research Interests:

Temple Economy in Early Medieval India CE 600-1300) Coastal Society (particularly East Coast)--Early Indian Perspectives Early Indian Society and the Environment Maritime Culture--- Early Indian Perspectives.

Research Guidance:

Number of researchers awarded M.Phil: 03 (Degree awarded)

Number of researchers pursuing M.Phil: 01

Ph.D : 04

Project Running as a Co-Investigator:

Early Indias interaction with early South-east Asia: Re-interpreting the old and opening up new vistas, Dept of AIHC

List of Recent Publications:

1. Ray Krishnendu,"Understanding the Social Life of Vanga: Gleaning from the Inscriptions of Early Bengal (c. CE 1st to 5th Centuries)",Studies in Indian Epigraphy , vol. XLIV, 2019, pp. 56 -64
2. Ray Krishnendu,"The Making of a Place from a Geographical Space:Studying Khadi as a Case in Early Medieval Bengal (CE6th to 13th centuries)",Studies In Indian Place Names , vol. XXXVIII, 2019, pp. 67 -96
3. Ray Krishnendu,"Reading the Agrarian Geography in the Early Medieval Bengal Epigraphs (CE 6th --13th Centuries)",Studies in Indian Epigraphy , vol. XLIII, 2018, pp. 27 -36
4. Ray Krishnendu,"Epigraphic Gleaning of the Environmental Conditions of Western and Central India (CE 10th 13th Centuries)",Studies in Indian Epigraphy , vol. XLII, 2017, pp. 31 -37
5. Ray Krishnendu,"Epigraphic Bearing on the Nature of the Networks of Temples in Gujarat (12th to 13th Centuries CE)",Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India , vol. XLI, 2016, pp. 152 -160
6. Ray Krishnendu.(2015).The Social Aspects of the Religious Establishments at Sirpur in Chattishgarh (c.CE 6th --8th Centuries).Journal of History and Social Sciences.[Online].VIAvailable:www.jhss.org
7. Ray Krishnendu,"Communicating A Unique Terracotta Armband from the Coastal Area of South Twenty Four Parganas, West Bengal, India.",Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology. , vol. 10-11,no. 14, 2015, pp. 147 -154

Book Chapter:

Environment in Early Bengal: Gleaning from Epigraphs (Fifth to the Thirteenth Centuries AD) In M. D. Sampath and N. Pankaja (eds.), Ancient Sciences and Archaeology, Delhi, 2018, pp. 206-212.

Positions Holding:

External Member, Departmental Research Committee, Jadavpur University Ph. D and M. Phil Examiner of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal

Executive Member of the Epigraphical Society of India (ESI), Mysore and the Ancient 3 Science and Archaeological Society of India (ASASI), Mysore

Invited Lecture Delivered:
Prof. Ku. Si Haridas Bhat Shashtipoorthi Endowment Lecture, Organized by the Place Names Society of India, Mysore, 2018

Engaged in the field study collecting data from the eastern coast of India