Asian encounters: exploring connected histories

by Dhar, Parul Pandya Singh, Upinder

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Title Statements

Full title :Asian encounters : exploring connected histories / edited by Upinder Singh, Parul Pandya Dhar ; foreword by Kapila Vatsyayan.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New Delhi, India
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

Contributed articles.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 235 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198099802, 0198099800
oclc:ocn895112119
LC Classification:DS12
Dewey Decimal:306.095

1. The concept of cultural convergence revisited: reflections on India's early influence in Southeast Asia / Hermann Kulke -- 2. Ming China's violence against neighbouring polities and its representation in Chinese historiography / Geoff Wade -- 3. Gifts from other lands: Southeast Asian religious endowments in India / Upinder Singh -- 4. Changing regimes: Two episodes of Chinese military interventions in medieval South Asia / Tansen Sen -- 5. An inconvenient heritage: The Central Asian background of the Delhi Sultans / Sunil Kumar -- 6. Buddhism, art and ritual practice: Dong Duong at the intersection of Asian cultures / Parul Pandya Dhar -- 7. Durga and Siva at Banteay Srei: Blurring boundaries between monument, image and practice / Soumya James -- 8. Sri Lanka and maritime trade: Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as the protector of mariners / Osmund Bopearachchi -- 9. Viewing our shared past through Buddhist votive tablets across eastern India, Bangladesh and peninsular Thailand / Suchandra Ghosh -- 10. Early modern Indian carpets as media for cross-cultural interaction / Yumiko Kamada.