Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.3

c7.3

I propose to deliver a course of five lectures on India's contact with South-East Asia. As the region covers a wide and extensive area, and the contact was both political and cultural, the subject cannot be treated in detail in a systematic manner in course of these lectures. Nor is it necessary to do so. There are already a few books which give general information in respect of the different countries comprised within the geographical area, and I have myself written several books and articles on this subject. I do not wish to traverse the ground already covered by these publications. I would rather attempt a general survey of the whole area, laying special stress upon those problems and topics which have formed subjects of special study or keen controversy in recent years. I would thus make an endeavour to bring up-to-date our knowledge of this important and fascinating subject in some of its aspects, which have recently emerged into importance by new discoveries, researches and discussions.