Contents

pp v-viii

FOREWORD

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp xiii-xxxi

PART I - New Archaeological Evidence from South Asia and Southeast Asia

pp 1-2

1 - Central Vietnam during the Period from 500 BCE to CE 500

pp 3-16

2 - Ban Don Ta Phet and Khao Sam Kaeo: The Earliest Indian Contacts Re-assessed

pp 17-46

3 - Preliminary Study of Indian and Indian Style Wares from Khao Sam Kaeo (Chumphon, Peninsular Thailand), Fourth-Second Centuries BCE

pp 47-82

4 - Early Contacts between India and the Andaman Coast in Thailand from the Second Century BCE to Eleventh Century CE

pp 83-112

5 - The Batujaya Site: New Evidence of Early Indian Infl uence in West Java

pp 113-136

6 - Continuity and Change in South Indian Involvement in Northern Sumatra: The Inferences of Archaeological Evidence from Kota Cina and Lamreh

pp 137-160

7 - South Asia and the Tapanuli Area (North-West Sumatra): Ninth-Fourteenth Centuries CE

pp 161-176

8 - Emergence of Early Historic Trade in Peninsular India

pp 177-196

9 - Contacts between India and Southeast Asia in Ceramic and Boat Building Traditions

pp 197-220

10 - Marine Archaeological Investigations along the Tamil Nadu Coast and their Implications for Understanding Cultural Expansion to Southeast Asian Countries

pp 221-240

PART II - Localisation in Southeast Asia

pp 241-242

11 - Tamil Merchants and the Hindu-Buddhist Diaspora in Early Southeast Asia

pp 243-262

12 - The Spread of Sanskrit in Southeast Asia

pp 263-276

13 - The Early Inscriptions of Indonesia and the Problem of the Sanskrit Cosmopolis

pp 277-298

14 - Indian Architecture in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’: The Temples of the Dieng Plateau

pp 299-316

15 - The Importance of Gupta-period Sculpture in Southeast Asian Art History

pp 317-332

16 - Individuals under the Glaze: Local Transformations of Indianisation in the Decorative Lintels of Angkor

pp 333-346

17 - Early Musical Exchange between India and Southeast Asia

pp 347-370

18 - Buddhism and the Circulation of Ritual in Early Peninsular Southeast Asia

pp 371-384

19 - Early Buddhism in Myanmar: Ye Dhammā Inscriptions from Arakan

pp 385-406

20 - Hindu Deities in Southern Vietnam: Images on Small Archaeological Artefacts

pp 407-432

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

pp 433-442

22 - Localisation of Indian Infl uences as Refl ected in the Laotian Versions of the Ramayana

pp 443-460

23 - Broken Threads: Contested Histories of Brahminism in Cambodia and Thailand and the Construction of Ritual Authority

pp 461-482