Asian Encounters
Exploring Connected Histories
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ISBN:
9780198099802
Publication date:
27/10/2014
Hardback
260 pages
241.0x184.0mm
Price: 1195.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198099802
Publication date:
27/10/2014
Hardback
260 pages
241.0x184.0mm
Upinder Singh & Parul Pandya Dhar
The book 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.
Suitable for: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of Indian history, history of South Asia, and social and cultural studies.
Rights: World Rights
Upinder Singh & Parul Pandya Dhar
Description
This book emphasizes the enormous historical importance of the varied cultural interactions across the Asian regions in the pre-modern and early modern periods. It discusses the long-standing engagement between India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, and the Southeast and Central Asian regions, examining the historical contexts in which these interactions evolved and the avenues, agents, and manifestations of cultural transmission. It addresses issues ranging from war and diplomacy to trade and shipwrecks; from the making of grand monumental edifices to the circulation of coveted carpets and small artefacts; and from the religious to the secular domains in the exchange of cultural ideas and forms. Underlining the intersection of politics, trade, religion, and intellectual and artistic exchange, these essays by leading scholars show how certain ideas and forms in religion, art, and literature were selected, assimilated and transformed as they travelled from one region to another. The book points to the urgent need for sustained collaborative and inter-disciplinary research in the field of Asian studies and for the need to arrive at new, more comprehensive understandings of early Asian interactions.
Upinder Singh & Parul Pandya Dhar
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Upinder Singh & Parul Pandya Dhar
Upinder Singh & Parul Pandya Dhar
Description
This book emphasizes the enormous historical importance of the varied cultural interactions across the Asian regions in the pre-modern and early modern periods. It discusses the long-standing engagement between India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, and the Southeast and Central Asian regions, examining the historical contexts in which these interactions evolved and the avenues, agents, and manifestations of cultural transmission. It addresses issues ranging from war and diplomacy to trade and shipwrecks; from the making of grand monumental edifices to the circulation of coveted carpets and small artefacts; and from the religious to the secular domains in the exchange of cultural ideas and forms. Underlining the intersection of politics, trade, religion, and intellectual and artistic exchange, these essays by leading scholars show how certain ideas and forms in religion, art, and literature were selected, assimilated and transformed as they travelled from one region to another. The book points to the urgent need for sustained collaborative and inter-disciplinary research in the field of Asian studies and for the need to arrive at new, more comprehensive understandings of early Asian interactions.
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