Query: india and southeast asia, cultural rapprochement

title: Cultural rapprochement between India and Southeast Asia

title: Rapprochement Between East Coast of India and Southeast Asia
abstract: The Indian cultural influence in Southeast Asia forms a fascinating aspect of India Southeast Asia relations. The transmission of many aspects of Indian culture to the vast regions of Southeast Asia without military conquest is truly amazing. It is one of the notable achievements of Indian history. Close cultural interaction of India with Southeast Asia began from prehistoric times and continued until the beginning of colonial rule. India's relations with Southeast Asia passed through many vicissitudes. This assumes much importance as India is trying its best to be major power in the region with its look East Policy in the new millennium. The Indian cultural influence was by peaceful and non political methods.The culturally rich east coast of India played a significant part in this cultural rapprochement

title: India's look east policy: an Asianist strategy in perspective
abstract: Indian nationalist leaders developed a strong interest in Asia right from the early nineteenth century. Jawarharlal Nehru articulated an Asianist ideology based on the cultural affinities between India and China and the geopolitical interest in Greater India. This approach, which culminated in the Bandung summit, was put into parenthesis after the 1962 war. The Cold War, during which India and South East Asia were in different camps, prompted differing paths towards in emulating the economic progress of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, and different approaches towards the development of the ASEAN. India's Asianist policy met an uneven fate but, by and large, there has been a significant rapprochement between India and East Asia. This move materialized in the investments of several Asian countries including South Korea in India and the entry of India in the ARF. Yet the symbiosis between India and Southeast Asia remains hindered by the rather nationalistic view of the latter region that the Hindutva movement is still propagating: like in the colonial period, Asianism remains part of an instrumentalist strategy.

title: Buddhist Monastic Centers of Eastern India and Southeast Asia: Revisiting their Cross Cultural Linkages
abstract: The paper would aim to look at the historical, conceptual and monastic development of the Buddhist monasteries (mahaviharas) built under the aegis of the Pala and Bhaumakara rulers (8th 12th century CE) of the Eastern India, while outlining the cultural, artistic and architectural interrelationships which these religious edifices shared with the contemporaneous Buddhist buildings of Southeast Asia. These edifying buildings stood the test of time as the cultural landmarks reminiscent of the religious, pedagogic and artistic endeavours and served an archetypal model for the Southeast Asian traditions. While serving as institutional strongholds, these monastic universities upheld the idea of faith, peace and harmony. Grounded on the ideals of Vajrayana Buddhism, they ministered the notion of all inclusiveness, gradually eliminating the patriarchy and misogyny as seen in their radical approach. They also efficaciously manifested the notion of geographical diffusionism by encouraging the mobility of pilgrims and scholars, not only spreading the religion but creating a closed cultural network between far flung kingdoms. In addition, the grandiose scale of the monastic complexes bespeaks the role of the patrons, state craft and the efflorescence and cosmological symbolism of Vajrayana Buddhism during this period. By examining the socio political and religious milieu as referred in the epigraphic, textual and artistic sources, the paper would attempt to re examine the role of such establishments in Eastern India in reinforcing cross cultural connections with the Southeast Asian traditions. Traces of cultural linkages and influences are seen in the Southeast Asian monastic establishments of the later period also. The paper would shed light on the modern monastic discipline and the architectural spaces and their engaging role in restoring the Buddhist heritage and faith in the contemporary phase. By taking up select case studies of monastic establishments, a comparative study would be undertaken, in order to understand the transmission of ideas, practices and visual forms.

title: India and Southeast Asia cultural, economic and strategic linkages

title: Hiding the female sex: a sustained cultural dialogue between India and Southeast Asia

title: Hiding the female sex: a sustained cultural dialogue between India and Southeast Asia

title: Monuments, Motifs, Myths: Architecture and its Transformations in Early India and Southeast Asia
abstract: Since ancient times, India and Southeast Asia have engaged in an intense exchange of ideas, knowledge systems, objects and people traversing vast expanses over land and seas. The historiography of these early interactions has, in the past half century or more, witnessed an important paradigm shift, with the dominant framework of 'Indianization' yielding to an increased emphasis on 'localization' processes. What is more, notions of homogeneous cultural monoliths have been abandoned in favour of more textured understandings of regional and subregional diversities among the regions belonging to the Indian Ocean zone. More recently, the archaeology of cross cultural interactions in South and Southeast Asia has yielded exciting new discoveries about the earliest encounters between the regions.

title: Transmission of Textual Traditions in South and Southeast Asia: A View from India
abstract: This chapter looks at some of the common features and differences in the context, form and dispersal of textual knowledge across South and Southeast Asia. With a focus on the multiple cultural flows pertaining to knowledge transmission in the pre modern era, it looks at patterns of adaptation and recreation of knowledge across the region. While there has been assimilation, adaptation and integration of a predominantly classical Sanskrit textual idiom across the region from early times, there have also been other parallel processes of knowledge dispersal with manifold evolutions across time and space.

title: An Exploration of Cross Cultural and Gender Differences in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia
abstract: We explored cross cultural, gender based similarities and differences in values and attitudes towards women in East Asia (Hong Kong) South Asian (India and Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia (Singapore) Results indicated that women possess higher social (collectivistic) value orientations; males possess higher personal (individualistic) value orientations. Respondents in Hong Kong and Singapore possessed higher personal value orientations; those from India and Sri Lanka possessed higher social value orientations. Females were more egalitarian than men in their attitudes towards women. Respondents in India and Singapore possessed less equalitarian attitudes towards women as compared to respondents in Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.