SOCIAL SCIENTIST rulers rarely interfered with the ways and customs of the people. Composite culture developed in such fields as architecture, food, dress and music. Even the two religions, Hinduism and Islam, influenced each other."36 NOTES 1. Yuvan Chwang's Travels in India Vol. II, 1905, p. 226 quoted in S. Settar 6c P.K. V. Kaimal (ed) We Lived Together, New Delhi, 1999, 0. 33. 2. Fleet, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum III; Gupta Inscription, p. 8, quoted in op. cit., p. 33. 3. Nilakanta Sastri, The Colas, p. 210, quoted in op.cit., p. 37. 4. Thirty Pallava Copper Plates, p. 1, March 1936, p. 800 off, quoted in op. cit., p. 45. 5. Ibid., p. 49. 6. Ibid., p. 55. 7. B.L. Rice, Mysore: A Gazetteer compiled for Government, Vol. II West minster, 1899, p. 448 quoted in op. cit., p. 57. 8. Ibid., p. 65. 9. Op. cit., pp. 65-66. The names of the Mathas, the dates and preceptors are listed in tabular form. 10. Kirtana-Ghosa Arya Nama Ghosa, ed., by M. Neog Guwahati, 1967, p. 28 quoted in op. cit., p. 86. 11. S.L. Barua "Pan-Indian outlook of the Neo-Vaishnavites of Assam" in We Lived together, op. cit., p. 87. 12. M. Neog, Sri Sri Sankaradeva, Dibrugarh, 1987, p. 97. 13. C. Goswami, Sri Sri Anirudha-devan Charit ant Mayamara Satrar Gosain Salakar Vamsavali, Tinsukhia, 1933, Vol. 20, quoted in op. cit., p. 94. 14. A Bhagawati, Satriya Nach, Ramdhenu, Vol. XVII, No. 2, cited in S.L. Barua, op. cit., p. 90. 15. S.L. Barua, op. cit., p. 91. 16. A.C. Goswami, Sankar Kahatu Up ay, Guwahati, 1985, p. 28 cited in op. cit., p. 93. 17. Aparna Bhattacharya, "Worship fo Satyapir, Examples of Hindu-Muslim Rapprochements in Bengal" in the Proceedings of the IHC, 32nd Session, 1970, pp. 204-205, quoted in op. cit., p. 103. x J. Harprasad Ray, Trade and Diplomacy in India - China Relations: A Study of Bengal During the Fifteenth Century, New Delhi, 1993, pp. 142-44 quoted in op. cit., p. 103. 19. Nirmal Kumar Bose, The Structure of Hindu Society, translated by A. Beteille, New Delhi, 1975, pp. 131-32 quoted in op. cit., p. 104. 20. Asim Roy, The Islamic Syncretic Tradition in Bengal Reprint, New Delhi, 1983, p. 51. 1.. Ibid., p. 249. 22. Shivacharita Sahitya, Vol. II, 94, publication of Bharat Itihas Samshodhak Mandal quoted in We Lived Together an article by A.R. Kulkarni. 3. A.R. Kulkarni "Social Relations in Medieval Maharashtra: Experiments in Living Together" in ibid., p. 109.