TY - BOOK AU - Singh, Upinder AU - Dhar, Parul Pandya AU - Vatsyayan, Kapila TI - Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories SN - 9780198099802 U1 - 950 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Civilization KW - Asia N1 - 1. The concept of cultural convergence revisited: reflections on India's early influence in Southeast Asia / Hermann Kulke 2. Ming China's violence against neighbouring polities and its representation in Chinese historiography / Geoff Wade 3. Gifts from other lands: Southeast Asian religious endowments in India / Upinder Singh 4. Changing regimes: Two episodes of Chinese military interventions in medieval South Asia / Tansen Sen 5. An inconvenient heritage: The Central Asian background of the Delhi Sultans / Sunil Kumar 6. Buddhism, art and ritual practice: Dong Duong at the intersection of Asian cultures / Parul Pandya Dhar 7. Durga and Siva at Banteay Srei: Blurring boundaries between monument, image and practice / Soumya James 8. Sri Lanka and maritime trade: Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as the protector of mariners / Osmund Bopearachch 9. Viewing our shared past through Buddhist votive tablets across eastern India, Bangladesh and peninsular Thailand / Suchandra Ghosh 10. Early modern Indian carpets as media for cross-cultural interaction / Yumiko Kamada ER -