Books Books The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World
When India's attention shifted from West to East, releasing a bounty of spiritual, literary, scientific and artistic innovations that inspired local cultures.Publications Early Historic South Asia: Geography, Climate, and the Human Landscape
A dynamic approach of Early South Asia and the exchanges across the Bay of Bengal.Themes India & Cambodia
Books Some Aspects of Social & Economic History of Ancient India and Cambodia
A comparative study on social fabric in Ancient India and Cambodia. Focus on "village organization" that stills informs social fabric in Cambodia or Bali today.Publications Analyzing the Impact of Indian Architecture on the Architecture of Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia
A useful contribution for a better understanding of what was hastily called "Indianization" of Southeast Asia. Architectural point of view.Publications 'Coedès' Histories of Cambodia'
The case against George Coedès, not as an epigraphist but as an 'historian with the wrong framework'.Books Kambuja-desa, or An Ancient Hindu Colony in Cambodia
An India-centered approach of Cambodia, Champa and the "Indian colonization" of Southeast Asia".Publications On some Tantrik Texts studied in Ancient Kambjua
An exploration of Khmer inscriptions andTantric influences, with a stimulating take on the ever-elusive Bayon and the enigmatic figure of Tumburu over Angkor.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.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 of money in their transactions.Books Tantra, Magic and Vernacular Religion in Monsoon Asia (Introduction)
Preface to a collection of documented essays on Tantrism, particularly in South Asia and Southeast Asia.Books Champa
Volume I of the "Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East Series" dealt with the Kingdom of Champa, more "indianized" than Angkor.Books Indian Cultural Influence in Cambodia
A reference study on early Cambodia, Angkor civilization and its links to Indian culture.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 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.Publications Kauṇḍinya, Preah Thaong, and the "Nāgī Somā": Some Aspects of a Cambodian Legend
A summary of the many versions of the Kaundinya-Neang Neak story, the founding legend of Cambodia.Publications The Origins of the Sukhodaya (Sukhot'ai) Art
A well-balanced study on cultural and artistic exchanges around ancient Southeast Asia, summarizing the author's original view on the Indianization processPublications Survey of the Southern Provinces of Cambodia in the Pre-Angkor Era
South of Phnom Penh, archaelogical research have contributed to a better understanding of the Funan and Chenla periods.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 empiresPublications Политическая история и политическая организация раннесредневековой Индонезии (V–начало X в.) | Early Indonesian States, 5th-10th centuries
На островах Индонезии в V–VIII вв. сложились индиани-зированные ранние государства.Publications Processes of Indianization in the Khmer Empire
An Indian scholar's view on Indianization, trade and syncretism across early Southeast Asia.Publications Khmer Ceramics Represented on the Bayon and Banteay Chhmar
Locally-made ceramics in Bayon and Banteay Chhmar bas-reliefs.Films Nectar in Stone | The India-Cambodia Artistic Connection
An Indian TV film devoted to Indian-Cambodian connection in visual artsBooks A History of Early South East Asia
A major study on regional and global trade historic phases, their impact on development of polities and kingdoms around 1th-16th centuries Southeast asia.