'Coedes' Histories of Cambodia'
The case against George Coedès, not as an epigraphist but as an 'historian with the wrong framework'.
Publications Publications "Indianization" from the Indian Point of View: Trade and Cultural Contacts with Southeast Asia in the Early First Millennium C.E
Did Western scholars overestimate the scope of "Indian influence" on Southeast Asia?
Publications A First-Century Stele from Sriksetra
The spread of Saivist and Buddhist influences into Pyu communities of ancient Burma.
Publications A proposed relationship between Champa and Chola dynasties during the 11th and 13th centuries
"Although the connection of artistic features of Champa with the characteristics of South Indian art that were first noticed by...Publications Angkor Thom, une utopie réalisée? | Angkor Thom, a Fulfilled Utopia?
Space Organization and Indian urbanistic model in Ancient Cambodia.
Books Angkor Wat & Cultural Ties With India
Considerations on Angkor and architectural preservation by a leading Indian archeologist.
Books Cambodia from Funan to Chenla, A Thousand Years of Monetary History
While the Angkorian civilization never developed a real monetary system, the kingdoms of Funan and Chenla did use various types...
Books Champa
Volume I of the "Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East Series" dealt with the Kingdom of Champa, more "indianized"...
Publications Dance as Devotion
Indic Influences on Dance as Devotion in Angkor
Publications Facts and Fiction: The Myth of Suvaṇṇabhūmi Through the Thai and Burmese Looking Glass
More about Suvarnabhumi (Sanskrit) or Suvaṇṇabhūmi (Pali), the 'Golden Land' that attracted Indian sailors to the east.
Books Five Years in Siam, From 1891 to 1896, Vol I
The first volume of a remarkable account of the Siamese and Laotian societies, geographical surveys and mining explorations.
Books Five Years in Siam, From 1891 to 1896, Vol II
Second volume of a remarkable account of the Siamese, Cambodian and Laotian societies, geographical surveys and mining explorations.
Publications Gongs, Bells, and Cymbals: The Archaeological Record in Maritime Asia from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries
The circulation of musical instruments around Asia, in particular those in bronze, and what it tells us about regional trade...
Books Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad
Back to the intellectual and aesthetical origins of Hindu architecture and its Southeast Asian derivatives, particularly in the Khmer tradition.
Themes India & Cambodia
Publications Indigenization of Ramayana in Cambodia
Through some telling instances of 'indigenization', how Valmiki's Ramayana morphed into Ramakerti, an epic tale and a source of inspiration...
Publications Jewels For A King
Stylistic relationship between Khmer architectural ornamentation and jewellery.
Publications Khmer Cuisine Vocabulary
How Khmer culture set apart Sanskrit and Indian-influenced terms for cooking techniques and preparations mostly for rituals and religion-related foods.
Books L'architecture hindoue en Extreme-Orient | Hindu Architecture in the Far East
Archeological, architectural and historical sum on Indic influences in Southeast Asia.
Books L'art de l'Asie du Sud-Est [Southeast Asian Arts]
From protohistory to traditional craftmanship, from Burma to Sulawesi, a rich collection of studies in Southeast Asia arts.
Publications Manifestation of Indian philosophy of temple architecture in Cambodia- A case of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap.
Architectural, cosmological and philosophical inspirations from India on the Khmer style, studied by two Indian scholars.
Books Music and Musical Thought in Early India
A sum on early Indian music encompassing the history of thought, religion, science, across the subcontinent.
Links Music India Online (MIO)
"The largest, oldest, pioneering Indian music online website in the world, est. around 1995!"
Films Nectar in Stone | The India-Cambodia Artistic Connection
An Indian TV film devoted to Indian-Cambodian connection in visual arts
Publications Nouvelles perspectives pour la connaissance de la fin de la période angkorienne
What happened in Khmer art and religious practice during the two last centuries of the Angkorean era?
Publications Processes of Indianization in the Khmer Empire
An Indian scholar's view on Indianization, trade and syncretism across early Southeast Asia.
Books Royal Succession in Ancient Cambodia
Matrilinear and patrilinear succession lines, plus some conquerors or usurpers: the complex genealogy of pre-Angkorean and Angkorean sovereigns.
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 South Asia from 1200 BCE to 900 CE
Politics, ethics and sense of community in the Early India context.
Publications Spice Routes and Cultural Influences: The India-Cambodia Culinary Dialogue
A background reading selection about the rich and complex interrelation between India and Cambodia from ancient times to nowadays respective...
Books The Angkorian Records
Poetry, mysticism and eschatology in the Khmer inscriptions of the Angkorean period, in this inspired essay written by an Indian...
Books The Angkorian World
Pluridisciplinary, encyclopaedic, ambitious and often highly enjoyable synthesis and sum of Angkorean research to the date.
Publications THe Bay of Bengal Interaction Sphere (1000 BC – AD 500)
More about the BBIS (Bay of Bengal Interaction Sphere).
Books The Natyashastra
The first integral English translation of the Sanskrit Treatise on Hindu Dance, "Dramaturgy and Histrionics".
Publications The PĀŚUPATA Sect in Ancient Cambodia and Champa
From bas-reliefs at the My Son Temple, Indian researchers Swati Chemburkar and Shivani Kapoor retrace the presence of an ascetic...Publications The Preservation and Management of the Monuments of Champa in Central Vietnam
50 kms from the city of Hoi An, My Sơn is the largest and most important of Champa’s religious architectural...
Books Treatises on Dance | ตำรารำ (Tảrā rả)
The one and only Thai treatise on dance, a stunning collection of texts and illustrations dating back from 1790 onwards.
Publications Water, Ritual, and Prosperity at the Classical Capital of Bagan, Myanmar (11th to 14th Centuries CE)
Water management in Ancient Bagan, with interesting parallels with archaelogical findings at Kbal Spean, Phnom Kulen.
Publications 世紀末南重倚坐佛像起源 勻(老播研究新視野 | Origins of Bhadhrasana Buddha Statues throughout Southeast Asia (7-8th centuries)
How Indic and Chinese influences combined in early Southeast Asia.