Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia (Historical and Contemporary Dimensions)

"The books presents the study undertaken by the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) on India's cultural links with Southeast Asia, with particular reference to historical and contemporary dimensions. The book traces ancient trade and maritime links, Chola Empire and Southeast Asia, religious exchanges (the Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic heritage), language, scripts and folklore, performing arts, painting and sculpture, architecture, role of the Indian Diaspora, contemporary cultural interaction, etc."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction (Shyam Saran)....Pages 1-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Early Contacts Between Bali and India (I Wayan Ardika)....Pages 19-29 Trans-locality and Mobility across the Bay of Bengal: Nagapattinam in Context (Himanshu Prabha Ray)....Pages 31-50 Indian Patterned Cotton Textiles and Trade with the East and Southeast (Lotika Varadarajan)....Pages 51-63 Front Matter ....Pages 65-65 Indigenous Thought on Indian Traditions in Thailand (Amara Srisuchat)....Pages 67-91 Panyupayana: The Emergence of Hindu Polities in the Pre-Islamic Philippines (Joefe B. Santarita)....Pages 93-105 Indian–Southeast Asian Contacts and Cultural Exchanges: Evidence from Vietnam (Le Thi Lien)....Pages 107-127 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 From Śivaśāsana to Agama Hindu Bali: Tracing the Indic Roots of Modern Balinese Hinduism (Andrea Acri)....Pages 131-150 Power, Prestige and Possession: Interwoven Legacies of Ida Pedanda Istris ‘Priestesses’ in Balinese Hinduism (Madhu Khanna)....Pages 151-178 Front Matter ....Pages 179-179 Transmission of Textual Traditions in South and Southeast Asia: A View from India (Sudha Gopalakrishnan)....Pages 181-192 The Bhagavad-Gītā Sections of the Old Javanese Bhīṣmaparwa, Text-Building and the Formation of the State in Pre-modern Indonesia (Thomas M. Hunter)....Pages 193-207 The Reworking of Indian Epics in the Hands of Javanese and Malay Authors (Ding Choo Ming)....Pages 209-224 Camille Bulcke’s Ramakatha-Utpatti aur Vikas: An Important Reference Work for Scholars in the Field of Ramayana Studies (Malini Saran, Vinod C. Khanna)....Pages 225-237 Front Matter ....Pages 239-239 Archaeology as Soft Power in ASEAN–India Cultural Contexts (Sachchidanand Sahai)....Pages 241-252 Shiva’s Land: Understanding the Religious Landscape of Early Southeast Asia (John Guy)....Pages 253-274 Ancient Architectural Influence Between Bali and Majapahit: Drawing Upon the Affinities with Ancient Indian Architecture and the Way It Is Developed in Bali (Ir Nyoman Popo Priyatna Danes)....Pages 275-289 Front Matter ....Pages 291-291 Natyasastraic Links in Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia (Padma Subramanyam)....Pages 293-298 Front Matter ....Pages 299-299 An Imperial Divorce: The Division of South and Southeast Asia in the Colonial Discourse of the Nineteenth Century (Farish A. Noor)....Pages 301-323 Monuments, Motifs, Myths: Architecture and its Transformations in Early India and Southeast Asia (Parul Pandya Dhar)....Pages 325-345 Back Matter ....Pages 347-371