ShodhPatra: International Journal of Science and Humanities

A Historiographical Overview of the Historical Geography of the Kamata-Kuchbehar Region

Historical geography is an interdisciplinary field that explores the spatial and temporal dimensions of past societies by synthesizing human, physical, theoretical, and empirical geographical frameworks. It seeks to understand the formation and transformation of cultural landscapes by analyzing how human communities historically interacted with, adapted to, and reshaped their local environments and ecological settings. The cultural character of any landscape is profoundly influenced by its underlying geographical context. Understanding the transformation of landscapes over time is inherently dependent on the study of landform dynamics within a temporal framework. A comprehensive understanding of the past landscape is the vital for interpreting its evolution into the present-day cultural landscape. This article seeks to offer a historical-geographical reconstruction of the Kamata-Kuchbehar region, drawing upon diverse source materials. It endeavors to critically examine the region’s physical attributes and historical development, thereby illuminating the interplay between geography and cultural transformation over time.