INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INITIATIVE
Naldanga Rajbari
Research Initiative
A focused project documenting the Naldanga Estate, intermediary regional authority and governance in Bengal through archival, legal-historical, spatial and local evidence.
PROJECT IDENTITY
Research-led, independent and evidence-conscious.
The initiative is founded and led by Md Imdadul Haque Sohag. It provides a stable home for related working papers, repository records and independently published coverage, while keeping each kind of evidence clearly separated.
It is presented as an independent research initiative—not as a university, degree-granting body, peer-review journal or claim of institutional endorsement.
CORE RECORDS
Research record
These are repository-hosted working papers. A DOI or repository listing provides a persistent record; it does not, by itself, establish peer review.
01 · SSRN 6539038DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6539038
Reassessing Regional Authority in Mughal Bengal: A Spatial, Legal, and Historiographical Analysis of the Naldanga Estate within Mahmudshahi Pargana
A working paper examining the estate through spatial, legal and historiographical evidence.
Open record ↗02 · SSRN 6548259DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6548259
Naldanga Rajya: Reconstructing a Regional Polity Beyond the Zamindari Framework in Pre-Colonial Bengal
A working-paper record on intermediary authority and institutional structure beyond a simplified zamindari classification.
Open record ↗03 · SSRN 6901999DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6901999
Intermediary Authority and Zamindari Governance in Pre-Colonial Bengal: A Micro-historical Study of Naldanga Rajya
A micro-historical working paper co-authored with Badal Ghosh.
Open record ↗ADDITIONAL REPOSITORY RECORD
Zenodo
A related Naldanga research deposit is preserved at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20336868.
Open DOI ↗INDEPENDENT COVERAGE
Public record
নলডাঙ্গা কি শুধুই জমিদারি—ইতিহাস নতুনভাবে পড়ছেন ইমদাদুল হক সোহাগ
Third-party reporting concerning the Naldanga research record.
Read source ↗Business Bangladesh · 14 June 2026মুঘল বাংলার আঞ্চলিক শাসনব্যবস্থা নিয়ে নতুন গবেষণা: আলোচনায় নলডাঙ্গা রাজ্য
Third-party reporting concerning the Naldanga research record.
Read source ↗U71 News · 13 June 2026আঞ্চলিক শাসন ও নলডাঙ্গা এস্টেটের নতুন আলোকপাত
Third-party reporting concerning the Naldanga research record.
Read source ↗EVIDENCE STANDARD
One entity, distinct evidence layers.
Project identity, authored research and third-party coverage are linked but not conflated.
Repository placement is described accurately; media coverage and tertiary-source use are recorded as evidence of public use, not academic validation.