caa a22 4500 386325898 CHVBK 20180307111651.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0041977X00034571 doi S0041977X00034571 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0041977X00034571 Bakker Hans The Ramtek inscriptions [Elektronische Daten] [Hans Bakker] The hill of Ramtek (21°.28´N, 79°.28´E), c. 45 km. NE of Nagpur (Maharashtra), merits special attention because it appears to be one of the very few places in India where an uninterrupted historical development from the fourth century A.D. to the present day can be investigated through a series of archaeological monuments which, although partly restored or built over in later periods, seem never to have been exposed to destructive and iconoclastic forces. From at least the fifth century onwards the hill, also known as Rāmagiri, Sindūragiri, or Tapamgiri (Tapogiri), served as a regional centre of religious activity and probably, also had a more secular function as an outstanding strategic base controlling the highway that connected, and still connects, the central and eastern part of the basin of the Ganges with the northern Deccan. This could possibly explain, at least in part, why the religious structures on top of the hill have attracted the attention and care of the rulers of the area from a very early date. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1989 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 52/3(1989-10), 467-496 0041-977X 52:3<467 1989 52 BSO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00034571 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00034571 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bakker Hans NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 52/3(1989-10), 467-496 0041-977X 52:3<467 1989 52 BSO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge