Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.93

c9.93

To the west of Kambuja lay the kingdom of Siam, now called Thailand. Reference has been made above to the Hindu kingdom of Dvāravatī in the seventh century A.D., the establishment of Kambuja supremacy, and the subsequent conquest of the country by the Thais. The old culture continued in its main features and even to-day Siam is a flourishing land of Buddhism. But the political history of the Thais falls beyond the scope of this lecture.