TY - BOOK ID - 85467454 TI - Early interactions between South and Southeast Asia : reflections on cross-cultural exchange AU - Manguin, Pierre-Yves AU - Wade, Geoff AU - Mani, A. AU - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. PY - 2011 SN - 9814345105 9814311170 9814311162 PB - Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, DB - UniCat KW - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. KW - South Asia KW - Southeast Asia KW - Asia, Southeast KW - Asia, Southeastern KW - South East Asia KW - Southeastern Asia KW - Asia, South KW - Asia, Southern KW - Indian Sub-continent KW - Indian Subcontinent KW - Southern Asia KW - Orient KW - Relations KW - Civilization KW - Indic influences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467454 AB - This book takes stock of the results of some two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the trans-cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays reappraise the millennium-long historiographic no-man's land during which exchanges between the two shores of the Bay of Bengal led, among other processes, to the Indianisation of those parts of the region that straddled the main routes of exchange. Some essays follow up these processes into better known "classical" times or even into modern times, showing that the localisation process of Indian themes has long remained at work, allowing local societies to produce their own social space and express their own ethos. ER -