Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.2

c9.2

I have described in the preceding lecture how a large number of Hindu Colonial kingdoms grew up in different parts of South-east Asia during the first five centuries A.D. Some of these, like Fu-nan and Champā, were big and powerful, while others were quite small. Fu-nan, again, extended her power beyond the frontiers of Cambodia and established what may be called the first Hindu Colonial empire in this region. Unfortunately, we possess no details of its growth and extent. But soon other Hindu empires came into existence and played a notable part in extending the political dominion and culture of the Hindus. I propose to discuss some of these in the present lecture.