Research keywords (7):
Copper Plate Inscriptions
, India
, South Asia
, Socio-Economic History
, Epigraphy
, Medieval
, Bengal
Research theme for competitive and other funds (7):
2019 - 2024 Documents and Literacy in Pre-Modern South Asia: Through the Compilation of the Corpus of Early Medieval Inscriptions of Bengal
2015 - 2019 Colophons of Sanskrit manuscripts originating in Eastern India
2014 - 2019 Armed Power and Armed Groups in Early Medieval Eastern India: their Characters and Involvement with Rural Power Relations
2010 - 2014 Social Formation in Early Medieval Eastern India: Construction of Norms and Negotiation among Social Groups
2008 - 2009 Power and Domination in the Rural Society of Early Medieval South Asia
2007 - 2007 前近代南アジア農村社会における知:中世初期ベンガルを対象として
2000 - 2001 グプタ期および後グプタ期北インドにおける国家構造とその変動
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Papers (33):
Ryosuke Furui. Manahali Copperplate Inscription of Madanapāla, Year 8. Pratna Samiksha: A Journal of Archaeology, New Series. 2023. 13. 81-96
Ryosuke Furui. Buddhist Vihāras in Early Medieval Bengal: Organizational Development and Historical Context. Buddhism, Law & Society. 2023. 7. 99-141
Ryosuke Furui. Changing patterns of agrarian development in early medieval north bengal a delineation from the inscriptions. Swadhin Sen, Supriya Varma and Bhairabi Prasad Sahu (eds), The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Medieval South Asia: Contesting Narratives from the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin, London and New York: Routledge. 2023. 139-153
Ryosuke Furui, Arlo Griffiths. A New Copperplate Inscription: Grant of the Village Kumudavillikā during the Reign of Śaśāṅka, Year 8. Pratna Samiksha: A Journal of Archaeology, New Series. 2020. 11. 99-113
Ryosuke Furui. Sujanagar Stone Inscription of the Time of Bhojavarman, Year 7. Pratna Samiksha: A Journal of Archaeology, New Series. 2019. 10. 115-122
Martial Brāhmaṇas and a Brahmadeya: A New Copperplate Inscription of Gopāla II and its Historical Implications
(A special lecture delivered at Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Visva-Bharati 2023)
Martial Brāhmaṇas and a Kāyatsha General: Gleanings from New Pāla Inscriptions
(A Lecture delivered at Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta 2023)
Buddhist Vihāras and “Secularity”: What Epigraphy Can Say and Cannot Say
(Vihāra Project Kickoff Symposium 2022 2022)
The Pāla Kings in ‘Śaiva Age’: Layers of Religious Affiliation in Early Medieval Eastern India with Special Reference to Epigraphic Sources
(Panel III: Epigraphy, of the workshop ‘Śaiva-Buddhist Encounters in Early Medieval East India’ held at University of Naples “L’Orientale” (online participation) 2022)
2002 - 2007 Jawaharlal Nehru University School for Social Sciences Centre for Historical Studies
2000 - 2006 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology Doctor Course, Department of South and Southeast Asian History and Society
1998 - 2000 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology Master Course, Department of South and Southeast Asian History and Society
1996 - 1998 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters Department of Oriental History
Professional career (1):
Doctor of Philosophy (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Work history (6):
2020/04 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Professor
2021/11 - 2021/11 International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies
2008/04 - 2020/03 The University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Associate Professor
2018/04 - 2019/03 Aoyama Gakuin University Faculty of Letters Temporary Lecturer
2010/04 - 2011/03 Berlin Free University Institute for the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Guest Scholar
2007/04 - 2008/03 Japan Society for Promotion of Science Post Doctoral Fellow
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Committee career (5):
2021/06 - 現在 Oriental Epigraphy Member of Editorial Board
2020/10 - 現在 日本南アジア学会 理事
2016/11 - 現在 Endowment Studies Member of Advisory Board
2018/07 - 2022/05 史学会 『史学雑誌』編集委員
2018/07 - 2021/03 International Journal of Asian Studies Associate Editor
Association Membership(s) (3):
インド考古研究会
, The Historical Society of Japan
, Japanese Association for South Asian Studies