Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia Historical and Contemporary Dimensions

Introduction.- Part I: Trade and Maritime Links Between South and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 1 Early Contacts between Bali and India.- Chapter 2 Trans-locality and Mobility across the Bay of Bengal: Nagapattinam in Context.- Chapter 3 Indian Patterned Cotton Textiles and Trade with East and Southeast Asia.- Part II: Continuities and Change.- Chapter 4 Indigenous Thought on Indian Traditions in Thailand.- Chapter 5 Panyupayana: Pre-Islamic Philippines as a Hindu Polity?.- Chapter 6 Indian-Southeast Asian Contacts and Cultural exchanges: Evidence from Vietnam at One Time.- Part III: Representations of Religions and Rituals.- Chapter 7 From Sivasasana to Agama Hindu Bali: Tracing the Indic Roots of Modern Balinese Hinduism.- Chapter 8 Power, Prestige and Possession: Interwoven Legacies of Ida Pedendas "Priestesses" in Balinese Hinduism.- Part IV: Textual Traditions and Transmissions.- Chapter 9 Transmission of Textual Traditions in South and Southeast Asia: A View from India.- Chapter 10 The Bhagavad-Gita Sections of the Old Javanese Bhi?maparwa: Text Building and the Formation of the State in Premodern Indonesia.- Chapter 11 The Reworking of Indian Epics in the Hands of Malay and Javanese Authors in the Past.- Chapter 12 Camille Bulcke’s Ramakatha-Utpatti aur Vikas: An Important Reference Work for Scholars in the Field of Ramayana Studies.- Part V: Sacred Geographies and Localisation of Beliefs.- Chapter 13 Archaeology as Soft Power or Power of Plurality in ASEAN-India Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 14 Siva's Land: Understanding the Religious Landscape in Early Southeast Asia.- Chapter 15 Ancient Architectural Influence Between Bali and Majapahit.- Part VI: Evolving Artistic Expressions --- From Tradition to Modernity.- Chapter 16 Natya Sastra-ic Links in Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia.- Part VII: Writing our own Histories: Changing Methodology.- Chapter 17 An Unwilling Divorce: Colonial-Era Epistemology and the Division of South and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 18 Monuments, Motifs, Myths: Architecture and its Transformations in India and Southeast Asia.- Appendix.- Programme of the ASEAN-India Civilizationa Links, July 2015.- Keynote Address by Amb. Anil Wadhwa, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India.- Inaugural Address by Prof. Lokesh Chandra, President, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).- Valedictory Address by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-Asia Project.

Shyam Saran, Former Chairman, RIS  Member, Governing Board, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India