Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. CONTRIBUTORS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv
5. 1. Introduction: Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections – Decoding Cultural Heritage 1
6. 2. Negotiating Place and Heritage: Creating Nalanda University 32
7. 3. India, Magadha, Nalanda: Ecology and a Premodern World System 51
8. 4. Collecting the Region: Configuring Bihar in the Space of Museums 70
9. 5. Heritage Preservation in the Gaya Region 86
10. 6. Setting the “Records” Straight: Textual Sources on Nālandā and Their Historical Value 105
11. 7. “Central India Is What Is Called the Middle Kingdom” 141
12. 8. The Object / The Tree: Emissaries of Buddhist Ground 160
13. 9. Tracing Transregional Networks and Connections Across the Indic Manuscript Cultures of Nusantara (AD 1400–1600) 184
14. 10. Seeking a Sufi Heritage in the Deccan 222
15. 11. Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Spatial Comparison of Nineteenth Century Observations and the Protected World Heritage Site 239
16. 12. A Heritage Gem Sits in the Heart of a City, Unacknowledged, Incognito: The Case for Recognizing Kolkata Chinatown as a Historic Urban Landscape 257
17. INDEX 271