Asian Encounters

Exploring Connected Histories
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-809980-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 193 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

The centuries-old interactions between the different regions of Asia took various forms including the migration of people, trade in raw materials and goods, and the exchange of religious, literary, and aesthetic ideas and forms. Covering diverse aspects of these interactions, this volume studies the connections between India and other parts of Asia including China and Southeast Asia.

It, therefore, approaches the subject of Asian cultural interactions during the pre-modern and early modern periods through the prism of politics, art, religion, and trade. By bringing together these inter-related aspects of cultural encounters, it explores the complex connected histories of the Asian people in a comprehensive manner.

The diversities of cultural interactions addressed in this book range from issues of war and diplomacy to trade, trade routes and ship-wrecks; from the making of grand monumental edifices to the circulation of tiny terracottas and coveted carpets, and from the religious to the secular domains in the exchange of cultural ideas and forms. Crucial for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary networks between the Indian subcontinent and various other parts of Asia, this work shows that interactions across cultures in pre-modern Asia were motivated not only by commercial but also cultural ties and explores the historical context in which they took place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Upinder

Dhar, Parul Pandya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Foreword by Kapila Vatsyayan

- Introduction by Upinder Singh and Parul Pandya Dhar

- Changing Perspectives

- 1. Indian colonies, Indianization or cultural convergence? Reflections on the changing image of India's role in Southeast Asia by Hermann Kulke

- 2. Ming state violence against neighbouring polities and its representation in Chinese historiography by Geoff Wade

- Political Connectivities and Conflicts

- 3. Gifts from other lands: Southeast Asian royal religious endowments in India by Upinder Singh

- 4. Changing regimes: Two episodes of Chinese military interventions in medieval South Asia by Tansen Sen

- 5. An inconvenient heritage: The Central Asian background of the Delhi Sultans by Sunil Kumar

- Religion, Rituals and Monuments

- 6. Buddhism, art and ritual practice: ?ng D??ng at the intersection of Asian cultures by Parul Pandya Dhar

- 7. Durg? and ?iva at Banteay Srei: Blurring boundaries between monument, image and practice by Soumya James

- Trade, Icons and Artefacts

- 8. Sri Lanka and maritime trade: Bodhisattva Avalokite?vara as the protector of mariners by Osmund Bopearachchi

- 9. Viewing our shared past through Buddhist votive tablets across eastern India, Bangladesh and peninsular Thailand by Suchandra Ghosh

- 10. Early modern Indian carpets as media for cross-cultural interaction by Yumiko Kamada

- About the editors and contributors

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Upinder Singh is Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi

Parul Pandya Dhar is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of History, University of Delhi.