Connecting Nations: Politico-Cultural Mapping of India and South East Asia
EDITOR: Achintya Kumar Dutta and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
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An important aspect of India’s foreign policy from the 1990s has been its attempt to consolidate its ties of friendship and mutual understanding with its East and South East Asian neighbours. India’s Act East Policy has initiated a new positive approach towards South East Asia through its roots which can be traced to India’s past history and tradition. While it began primarily with religious interaction which lead to the spread of Buddhism in the far-flung areas of South East Asia, economic and cultural connections followed soon after. Against this backdrop, the present volume analyses various facets of India’s connectivity with the South East Asian countries, including its linkages with the north-eastern states of India; a rediscovery of Indian imprinted culture, mainly Buddhism and other religions in the South East Asian region and beyond; the use of the Indian diaspora for economic development; and the implementation of various agreements signed by India with the South East Asian countries. This volume is an interesting combination of the analytical method of historical linkages between India and South East Asia with critical observations of the contemporary dynamics of international politics.
The Editor
The Editors
Achintya Kumar Dutta, Professor of History, University of Burdwan, has been teaching history of South East Asia and history of modern India for more than 20 years and his research interests include economic history and history of medicine. Professor Dutta is the author of Economy and Ecology in a Bengal District: Burdwan, 1880-1947 (2002) and Trauma in Public Health: Tuberculosis in Twentieth-century India (2018). He has also co-edited Ethnicity, Nation and Minorities: South Asian Scenario (2003) and History of Medicine in India: The Medical Encounter (2005).
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Fellow and Coordinator of the research project ‘Proximity to Connectivity’ at the Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata Chapter, under the Neighbourhood Regional Studies Initiative. She specializes in South Asian affairs. She was conferred the Kodikara Award by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, 1998-9. She is the author of Sanghat O Sashan: Purbottar Bharater Diary (Conflict and Governance: A Northeast Diary; 2013) and SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (2006), and has co-edited The State of Being Stateless: An Account of South Asia (2015) and Women in Indian Borderlands (2011).
As a global figure, Tagore transcends the boundaries of language and reaches out to people distant both in time and space. His art took inspiration from contemporary Western trends and became a powerful means to connect with people beyond Bengal. Word, image, song, and text were his tools of communication, as also his extraordinary presence in a sartorial garb of his own design. A littérateur in many genres, the impact of his work was determined both by the material he presented, and by its simultaneously local and global contexts. Now, when his international reputation has spanned over more than a hundred years, it is important to revisit the sites of Tagore’s eminence, and ask to what extent he was a ‘living text’ in the century that witnessed him as a global intellectual.
Accordingly, this volume investigates how Tagore’s writings and art are linked to the metalinguistic domains of the psychological, medical and mythical; how he was received in various cultures outside India; how his art was determined by individual circumstances and global aspirations; and how he acted as an inspiration to his contemporaries and subsequent generations including modern Indian writers and artists.
The Editor
Imre Bangha studied in Budapest and Santiniketan and at present is Associate Professor of Hindi at the University of Oxford. He has published books and essays in English, Hindi, and Hungarian on literature in Brajbhasha and other forms of old Hindi and has also prepared Hungarian translations from various South Asian languages. His work on the international reception of Bengali culture includes Rabindranath Tagore: Hundred Years of Global Reception (2014, co-edited with M. Kämpchen) and Hungry Tiger: Encounter between India and Central Europe (2007).
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
| List Of Illustrations | Vii-Viii |
| Acknowledgements | Ix |
| Introduction: India-South East Asia: Connectivity Through The Ages Achintya Kumar Dutta Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury | 1-25 |
| Representations Of Ministers And Functionaries In The Epigraphs (C.909–19 Ce) Of Indrapura Dynasty Of Champa (Vietnam): Influence Of Early Indian Political Culture? Suchandra Ghosh | 26-36 |
| The Search For The Soul Of Bharat: Beyond Its Territorial Limits Sarvani Gooptu | 37-52 |
| Indians In Colonial Burma Aparajita Dhar | 53-69 |
| Reflections On India’s Relations With Asean:From The Look East Policy To The Act East Policy Man Mohini Kaul | 70-89 |
| India’s ‘Look East’ Policy In The New Global Promenade: The Effective-Ineffective Stock Taking And The Boulevard Ahead Tridib Chakraborti |
90-112 |
| Trade Relationship Between Thailand And The North-Eastern Region Of India With Special Reference To The Look West Policy Of Thailand And the Look East Policy Of India Jatindra Nath Saikia | 113-130 |
| Thailand’s Economic Integration With Neighbouring Countries: Implications For India And Its North-East Region Suthiphand Chirathivat Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong | 131-157 |
| Connectivity And Subregional Cooperation In The East Of South Asia: Importance Of India’s North-East Revisited Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury | 158-179 |
| India’s ‘Look East’ Policy: The Imperatives Of Overland Connectivity Rajen Singh Laishram | 180-190 |
| Bibliography | 191-204 |
| Notes On Editors And Contributors | 205-206 |
| Index | 207-213 |
