Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xii
5. Introduction xiii
6. PART I New Archaeological Evidence from South Asia and Southeast Asia
7. 1. Central Vietnam during the Period from 500 BCE to CE 500 3
8. 2. Ban Don Ta Phet and Khao Sam Kaeo: The Earliest Indian Contacts Re-assessed 17
9. 3. Preliminary Study of Indian and Indian Style Wares from Khao Sam Kaeo (Chumphon, Peninsular Thailand), Fourth-Second Centuries BCE 47
10. 4. Early Contacts between India and the Andaman Coast in Thailand from the Second Century BCE to Eleventh Century CE 83
11. 5. The Batujaya Site: New Evidence of Early Indian Influence in West Java 113
12. 6. Continuity and Change in South Indian Involvement in Northern Sumatra: The Inferences of Archaeological Evidence from Kota Cina and Lamreh 137
13. 7. South Asia and the Tapanuli Area (North-West Sumatra): Ninth-Fourteenth Centuries CE 161
14. 8. Emergence of Early Historic Trade in Peninsular India 177
15. 9. Contacts between India and Southeast Asia in Ceramic and Boat Building Traditions 197
16. 10. Marine Archaeological Investigations along the Tamil Nadu Coast and their Implications for Understanding Cultural Expansion to Southeast Asian Countries 221
17. PART II Localisation in Southeast Asia
18. 11. Tamil Merchants and the Hindu-Buddhist Diaspora in Early Southeast Asia 243
19. 12. The Spread of Sanskrit in Southeast Asia 263
20. 13. The Early Inscriptions of Indonesia and the Problem of the Sanskrit Cosmopolis 277
21. 14. Indian Architecture in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’: The Temples of the Dieng Plateau 299
22. 15. The Importance of Gupta-period Sculpture in Southeast Asian Art History 317
23. 16. Individuals under the Glaze: Local Transformations of Indianisation in the Decorative Lintels of Angkor 333
24. 17. Early Musical Exchange between India and Southeast Asia 347
25. 18. Buddhism and the Circulation of Ritual in Early Peninsular Southeast Asia 371
26. 19. Early Buddhism in Myanmar: Ye Dhamm"a Inscriptions from Arakan 385
27. 20. Hindu Deities in Southern Vietnam: Images on Small Archaeological Artefacts 407
28. 21. ‘The Depositing of the Embryo’ – Temple Consecration Rituals in the Hindu Tradition of South and Southeast Asia: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence 433
29. 22. Localisation of Indian Infl uences as Refl ected in the Laotian Versions of the Ramayana 443
30. 23. Broken Threads: Contested Histories of Brahminism in Cambodia and Thailand and the Construction of Ritual Authority 461
31. Contributors 483
32. Index 491