Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-Cultural ExchangeThis book takes stock of the results of some two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the trans cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays