"Angkor Wat" ("Ankor Wat") by Allen Ginsberg
A literary monument to Angkor, "Kingdom Come or Kingdom Yore".
Publications Films "Ankor Wat" read by Allen Ginsberg (1969)
The Beat Generation forward-thinker spent five days in Angkor during his 1963 journey from India to Japan. Here is his voice.
Links Asian Historical Architecture
Photo depository on early Asian architecture nurtured by numerous contributors around the world
Publications Early China and the Indian Ocean Networks
Early China’s interactions with the maritime world and the eventual emergence of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) as a leading naval...
Publications Early Mainland Southeast Asian Landscapes in the First Millennium A.D.
A useful synthesis of what we know about Mainland Southeast Asia before the development of larger polities, cities-states and empires
Publications Epigraphical Texts and Sculptural Steles Produced under the Vīrabhadravarmadevas of 15th-Century Campā
Inscriptions reflect a unified and diverse Kingdom of Champa in the 15th century, before its collapse.
Publications Horse-Trading and Horse-Carving: Horses on Angkorian Temple Reliefs
Where did Angkor get horses from?
Themes India & Cambodia
Books Indian Cultural Influence in Cambodia
A reference study on early Cambodia, Angkor civilization and its links to Indian culture.
Publications Indians in Southeast Asia: Sojourners, Settlers, Diasporas
From the earliest times, there were substantial movement of people between the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka and Southeast asia.
Books Kambuja-desa, or An Ancient Hindu Colony in Cambodia
An India-centered approach of Cambodia, Champa and the "Indian colonization" of Southeast Asia".
Books Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia
A major essay on Southeast Asian trade roads and the growing involvement of agrarian States in worlwide commerce, 7th-14th centuries...
Books Nouvelle géographie universelle, La terre et les hommes, VIII: L'Inde et l'Indo-Chine
The astonishingly vivid and detailed Geography of India and Indochina by French free-thinker Élisée Reclus.
Publications On Post-Hellenistic Influences in Southeast Asia, Based on New Materials Recently Found in Southern Thailand and around Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia
Artifacts excavated in the Tonle Sap Lake area show links with maritime trade in the pre-Angkorian period, and hellenistic influences...
Books Relations de voyages et textes géographiques arabes, persans et turks
The "Island of Khmer" in the accounts of Arab travelers through the centuries.
Publications Rivers, Oceans, and Spirits: Water Cosmologies, Gender, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia
The centrality of water in Southeast Asian cosmologies.
Publications Routes maritimes et contacts culturels entre la Méditerranée et l'Asia | Maritime Routes and Mediterranean-Asian Cultural Swaps
How the Greeks made their own discovery of the monsoon trade winds.
Publications Sailing To Suvarnabhumi, The Land of Gold
One of the most comprehensive and groundbreaking works on commercial, maritime, cultural and religious links between India and the Southeast...
Publications Saivism and the Tantric Traditions
An exhaustive presentation of Shaivism, esoteric Tantrism, and the duality of female/male power.
Films Temple Dance of Apsaras
A heartfelt and savant approach of Angkor by a Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer.
Publications The Archaeology of early contact with India and the Mediterranean World, from the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD
How global trade, spices and maritime routes impacted the links between India and ancient Southeast Asia.
Publications THe Bay of Bengal Interaction Sphere (1000 BC – AD 500)
More about the BBIS (Bay of Bengal Interaction Sphere).
Publications The Major Role of the Mons in Southeast Asia
Mon and Mon-Khmer tribes came from the North, not from the South: new insights on an old controversy among linguists...