Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage

Published by ISEAS Publishing 2018

Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections

Decoding Cultural Heritage

Edited by: Anjana Sharma

https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814786423

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Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage has its conceptual core the inter-regional networks of Nalanda Mahavihara and its unique place in the Asian imaginary. The revival of Nalanda university in 2010 as a symbol of a shared inter-Asian heritage is this collection’s core narrative. The multidisciplinary essays interrogate ways in which ideas, objects, texts, and travellers have shaped — and in turn have been shaped by — changing global politics and the historical imperative that underpins them. The question of what constitutes cultural authenticity and heritage valuation is inscribed from positions that support, negate, or reframe existing discourses with reference to Southeast and East Asia. The essays in this collection offer critical, scholarly, and nuanced views on the vexed questions of regional and inter-regional dynamics, of racial politics and their flattening hegemonic discourses in relation to the rich tangible and intangible heritage that defines an interconnected Asia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. Introduction: Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections – Decoding Cultural Heritage Anjana Sharma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Negotiating Place and Heritage: Creating Nalanda University Gopa Sabharwal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. India, Magadha, Nalanda: Ecology and a Premodern World System Frederick Asher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. Collecting the Region: Configuring Bihar in the Space of Museums Sraman Mukherjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
5. Heritage Preservation in the Gaya Region Abhishek S. Amar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
6. Setting the “Records” Straight: Textual Sources on Nālandā and Their Historical Value Max Deeg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7. “Central India Is What Is Called the Middle Kingdom” Anne Cheng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8. The Object / The Tree: Emissaries of Buddhist Ground Padma D. Maitland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
9. Tracing Transregional Networks and Connections Across the Indic Manuscript Cultures of Nusantara (AD 1400–1600) Andrea Acri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
10. Seeking a Sufi Heritage in the Deccan Kashshaf Ghani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
11. Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Spatial Comparison of Nineteenth Century Observations and the Protected World Heritage Site M.B. Rajani and Sonia Das Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
12. A Heritage Gem Sits in the Heart of a City, Unacknowledged, Incognito: The Case for Recognizing Kolkata Chinatown as a Historic Urban Landscape Rinkoo Bhowmik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

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Language: English
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 285
Keywords: Archaeology

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Published: February 28, 2018
ISBN: 9789814786423