Early Interactions Between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Exchange

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
I. NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM
SOUTH ASIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
	1. Central Vietnam during the Period from 500 BCE to CE 500
	2. Ban Don Ta Phet and Khao Sam Kaeo
	3. Preliminary Study of Indian and Indian Style Wares from
Khao Sam Kaeo
	4. Early Contacts between India and the Andaman Coast in
Thailand from the Second Century BCE to Eleventh Century CE
	5. The Batujaya Site
	6. Continuity and Change in South Indian Involvement in
Northern Sumatra
	7 South Asia and the Tapanuli Area  (North-West Sumatra): Ninth-Fourteenth Centuries CE
	8. Emergence of Early Historic Trade in Peninsular India
	9. Contacts between India and Southeast Asia in Ceramic
and Boat Building Traditions
	10. Marine Archaeological Investigations along the Tamil Nadu
Coast and their Implications for Understanding Cultural
Expansion to Southeast Asian Countries
II. Localisation in Southeast Asia
	11. Tamil Merchants and the Hindu-Buddhist Diaspora in
Early Southeast Asia
	12. The Spread of Sanskrit in Southeast Asia
	13. The Early Inscriptions of Indonesia and the Problem
of the Sanskrit Cosmopolis
	14. Indian Architecture in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’
	15. The Importance of Gupta-period Sculpture in
Southeast Asian Art History
	16. Individuals under the Glaze: Local Transformations of
Indianisation in the Decorative Lintels of Angkor
	17. Early Musical Exchange between India and Southeast Asia
	18. Buddhism and the Circulation of Ritual in
Early Peninsular Southeast Asia
	19. Early Buddhism in Myanmar
	20. Hindu Deities in Southern Vietnam
	21. ‘The Depositing of the Embryo’ – Temple Consecration
Rituals in the Hindu Tradition of South and Southeast Asia
	22. Localisation of Indian Infl uences as Refl ected in the Laotian
Versions of the Ramayana
	23. Broken Threads: Contested Histories of Brahminism
in Cambodia and Thailand and the Construction of
Ritual Authority
Contributors
Index