Early Interactions Between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-cultural Exchange
Pierre-Yves Manguin · A. Mani · Geoff Wade
Jan 2011 · Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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514
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This book takes stock of the results of some two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the trans-cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays reappraise the millennium-long historiographic no-man's land during which exchanges between the two shores of the Bay of Bengal led, among other processes, to the Indianisation of those parts of the region that straddled the main routes of exchange. Some essays follow up these processes into better known "classical" times or even into modern times, showing that the localisation process of Indian themes has long remained at work, allowing local societies to produce their own social space and express their own ethos.
About the author
• Pierre-Yves Manguin is a professor at the Ecole francaise d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO, French School of Asian Studies), where he heads the Southeast Asian archaeology unit.
• A. Mani is Vice-President of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
• Geoff Wade is a historian with interests in Sino-Southeast Asian historical interactions and comparative historiography. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
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