India & Cambodia

When India's attention shifted from West to East, releasing a bounty of spiritual, literary, scientific and artistic innovations that inspired local cultures.

In English

The English translation of a reference book on Southeast Asia ancient history

In English

Entirely renovated in July 2008, a one-of-a-kind museum showcasing heritage treasures from Rajasthan, India, and the world.

In English

A dynamic approach of Early South Asia and the exchanges across the Bay of Bengal.

In English

Considerations on Angkor and architectural preservation by a leading Indian archeologist.

In English

Considerations on Angkor Wat and architectural preservation by a leading Indian archeologist.

In English

The 1954 historic diplomatic tour by a a photogenic leader, Pandit Nehru.

Seventy years ago, Prime Minister Nehru went to Angkor Wat and Banteay Srei during a diplomatic mission which took him to China, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

In English

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.

In English

A useful contribution for a better understanding of what was hastily called "Indianization" of Southeast Asia. Architectural point of view.

In English

A literary monument to Angkor, "Kingdom Come or Kingdom Yore".

In English

Through some telling instances of 'indigenization', how Valmiki's Ramayana morphed into Ramakerti, an epic tale and a source of inspiration for Cambodians.

In English

The case against George Coedès, not as an epigraphist but as an 'historian with the wrong framework'.

In English

The first integral English translation of the Sanskrit Treatise on Hindu Dance, "Dramaturgy and Histrionics".

In English & Sanskrit

An India-centered approach of Cambodia, Champa and the "Indian colonization" of Southeast Asia".

In English

First volume of the monumental work led by Indian scholar Haraprasad Ray, collecting "Data for the study of India-China relations through history."

In English

From Korea to Cambodia and Lao, a quite perceptive travelogue from the 1920s.

In French

Subtitle: "Moeurs, Coutumes, Superstitions, Légendes: Excursion dans les provinces de Roléia-Paier et Compong-Leng".

In French

How a scholar and translator from India at the Chinese Tang court went twice to Chenla to spread the Tantric-Buddhist faith and collect "divine medicine".

In French & Chinese

One of the most extensive study in comparative architecture, related to Angkorean and mostly Dravidian Indian temples.

A sum on early Indian music encompassing the history of thought, religion, science, across the subcontinent.

In English

The first volume of a remarkable account of the Siamese and Laotian societies, geographical surveys and mining explorations.

In English

Stylistic relationship between Khmer architectural ornamentation and jewellery, and its South-Indian influences.

In English

An exploration of Khmer inscriptions andTantric influences, with a stimulating take on the ever-elusive Bayon and the enigmatic figure of Tumburu over Angkor.

In English & Sanskrit

The origin of ayurvedic medicine in a treatise with highly complex authorship attribution.

In English & French

Back to the intellectual and aesthetical origins of Hindu architecture and its Southeast Asian derivatives, particularly in the Khmer tradition.

In English

Matrilinear and patrilinear succession lines, plus some conquerors or usurpers: the complex genealogy of pre-Angkorean and Angkorean sovereigns.

In English

Architectural, cosmological and philosophical inspirations from India on the Khmer style, studied by two Indian scholars.

In English

The one and only Thai treatise on dance, a stunning collection of texts and illustrations dating back from 1790 onwards.

In Thai

Workshop in Bharatanatyam classical dance by a renowned professor and researcher of this South India art form.

Pluridisciplinary, encyclopaedic, ambitious and often highly enjoyable synthesis and sum of Angkorean research to the date.

In English

50 kms from the city of Hoi An, My Sơn is the largest and most important of Champa’s religious architectural sites, with some seventy structures.

Poetry, mysticism and eschatology in the Khmer inscriptions of the Angkorean period, in this inspired essay written by an Indian woman artist.

In English, Sanskrit & Old Khmer

The power-charged erotica of Indian iconography, or how "bringing beauty nearer" inspired Indian (and Khmer) sculptors.

In English

Space Organization and Indian urbanistic model in Ancient Cambodia.

In French

How global trade, spices and maritime routes impacted the links between India and ancient Southeast Asia.

In English

How the emergence of an 'Indic cultural sphere' can be traced across the Indian Ocean.

In English

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.

In English

Preface to a collection of documented essays on Tantrism, particularly in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

In English

Second volume of a remarkable account of the Siamese, Cambodian and Laotian societies, geographical surveys and mining explorations.

In English

Inscriptions reflect a unified and diverse Kingdom of Champa in the 15th century, before its collapse.

In English

How the Greeks made their own discovery of the monsoon trade winds.

Far from cold scientific studies, an endearing invocation of Angkor and its ancient civilization by an Indian historian, poet and master in esoterism.

From protohistory to traditional craftmanship, from Burma to Sulawesi, a rich collection of studies in Southeast Asia arts.

In French

A summary of archaeological finds shining a new light on the history of maritime trade and early Southeeast Asia.

In English

One of the oldest and longest Indian (Carnatic and Hindustani) treatise on music and dance, in Sanskrit, with two commentaries.

In Sanskrit

An important library and researcher center in Indian and Oriental studies founded in Adyar, Chennai, India, in 1886.

In English

"The largest, oldest, pioneering Indian music online website in the world, est. around 1995!"

In English & Hindi

Artifacts excavated in the Tonle Sap Lake area show links with maritime trade in the pre-Angkorian period, and hellenistic influences that came from India.

In English & Russian

Volume I of the "Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East Series" dealt with the Kingdom of Champa, more "indianized" than Angkor.

In English

An educational platform and an essential online trove for musicologists and musicians around the world.

In English & French

Early China’s interactions with the maritime world and the eventual emergence of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) as a leading naval power in the 15th century.

In English

The centrality of water in Southeast Asian cosmologies.

In English

Politics, ethics and sense of community in the Early India context.

The Beat Generation forward-thinker spent five days in Angkor during his 1963 journey from India to Japan. Here is his voice.

In English

The spread of Saivist and Buddhist influences into Pyu communities of ancient Burma.

In English

Where did Angkor get horses from?

In English

The astonishingly vivid and detailed Geography of India and Indochina by French free-thinker Élisée Reclus.

In French

A reference study on early Cambodia, Angkor civilization and its links to Indian culture.

In English

An exhaustive presentation of Shaivism, esoteric Tantrism, and the duality of female/male power.

In English

Photo depository on early Asian architecture nurtured by numerous contributors around the world

An interdisciplinary review founded in 1976 byt two renowned Indian scholars

"Although the connection of artistic features of Champa with the characteristics of South Indian art that were first noticed by art historians such as Jean…

In English & Vietnamese

More about the BBIS (Bay of Bengal Interaction Sphere).

In English

A heartfelt and savant approach of Angkor by a Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer.

In English

A fascinating lecture on Indian classical dance, its treatises and its mind-blowing richness. Introductive presentation of the series.

In English, Hindi & Tamil

This major study in the history of dance and in Southern India architecture brings to us numerous notations which can be helpful for a better understanding of…

In English

Did Western scholars overestimate the scope of "Indian influence" on Southeast Asia?

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The circulation of musical instruments around Asia, in particular those in bronze, and what it tells us about regional trade in ancient times.

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One of the most comprehensive and groundbreaking works on commercial, maritime, cultural and religious links between India and the Southeast Asian entity.

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The precious metal and its impact on early Southeast Asian civilizations.

In English

The "Island of Khmer" in the accounts of Arab travelers through the centuries.

In French & Arabic

A background reading selection about the rich and complex interrelation between India and Cambodia from ancient times to nowadays respective culinary cultures.

In English

From the earliest times, there were substantial movement of people between the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka and Southeast asia.

In English

How Khmer culture set apart Sanskrit and Indian-influenced terms for cooking techniques and preparations mostly for rituals and religion-related foods.

In English & Khmer

A summary of the many versions of the Kaundinya-Neang Neak story, the founding legend of Cambodia.

In English

A well-balanced study on cultural and artistic exchanges around ancient Southeast Asia, summarizing the author's original view on the Indianization process

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South of Phnom Penh, archaelogical research have contributed to a better understanding of the Funan and Chenla periods.

In English

Mon and Mon-Khmer tribes came from the North, not from the South: new insights on an old controversy among linguists and historians.

In English

A useful synthesis of what we know about Mainland Southeast Asia before the development of larger polities, cities-states and empires

In English

More about Suvarnabhumi (Sanskrit) or Suvaṇṇabhūmi (Pali), the 'Golden Land' that attracted Indian sailors to the east.

In English

How Indic and Chinese influences combined in early Southeast Asia.

In Chinese

Water management in Ancient Bagan, with interesting parallels with archaelogical findings at Kbal Spean, Phnom Kulen.

In English & Burmese

На островах Индонезии в V–VIII вв. сложились индиани-зированные ранние государства.

In Russian

An Indian scholar's view on Indianization, trade and syncretism across early Southeast Asia.

In English

Locally-made ceramics in Bayon and Banteay Chhmar bas-reliefs.

In English

What happened in Khmer art and religious practice during the two last centuries of the Angkorean era?

In French

Indic Influences on Dance as Devotion in Angkor

In English

From bas-reliefs at the My Son Temple, Indian researchers Swati Chemburkar and Shivani Kapoor retrace the presence of an ascetic sect in pre-Angkorian and…

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An Indian TV film devoted to Indian-Cambodian connection in visual arts

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A major essay on Southeast Asian trade roads and the growing involvement of agrarian States in worlwide commerce, 7th-14th centuries.

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The most comprehensive bibliography about the works and life of Hindi poet Goswani Tulsidas, who authored his own version of the Ramayana epic

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A major study on regional and global trade historic phases, their impact on development of polities and kingdoms around 1th-16th centuries Southeast asia.

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Archeological, architectural and historical sum on Indic influences in Southeast Asia.

In French