Mapping Connections: Indo-Thai Historical and Cultural Linkages, a collection of incisive essays by some of the best-known names from India and Thailand, is an important initiative in the growth of civilizational relations between the two countries. This book emerges from a seminar, “Indo-Thai Historical and Cultural Linkages,†co-hosted by the Royal Thai Embassy and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. The Seminar was visualized as an academic preparatory exercise to further the age-long existing relationship between India and Thailand. It main objective was to analyze and outline the uniqueness of Indo-Thai culture and its contribution to the formation of a global Asian for at least two thousand years of recorded history. The Seminar, and by extension, this volume of essays, provides new directions in linguistic studies, offering further clarities about the process of Indo-Thai cultural contacts. It is also hoped that this ongoing process of studying language, religion, society and art-archaeology will help in identifying the linkages in the contemporary fields of economy, trade, science and technology as essential components to build vital future programmes of cooperation between India and Thailand.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neeru Misra
Neeru Misra is a visiting faculty at the National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New Delhi. She has a brilliant academic career with Masters and Doctorate from the University of Allahabad. She has been teaching for over two decades and has served in senior position with the Government organizations and the United Nations. Her books, The Garden Tomb of Humayun: An Abode in Paradise; Succession and Imperial Leadership Among the Mughals: 1526-1707 and Illicit Trafficking of the Cultural Property have been widely acclaimed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sachchidanand Sahai
Professor Sachchidanand Sahai (born 1941) served as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya in 2001. Currently he is Member, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. Professor Sahai obtained his M.A. degree in Ancient Indian History, culture and Archaeology from Banaras Hindu University, with the award of A.S. Altekar Gold Medal in 1962. His researches on ancient Cambodia under the guidance of eminent French savant George Coedes in the University of Paris (Sorbonne) during 1965-69 lead to a doctoral degree and the publication of a pioneering work Les institutions politiques et I’ organization administrative du Cambodge ancien, EFEO, Paris, 1971. Professor Sahai was offered a Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship at Cornell Fellowships at Australian National University and Maison de Science de I’Homme, Paris. Under the auspices of Indian Council for Cultural Relations Professor Sahai worked as Visiting Professor of Asian Civilization at Sisavangvong University, Vientiane, Laos. He also worked as Research Professor at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. Professor Sahai is the author of a number of books and research papers on the cultural history of South East Asia. He is the founder of the South East Asian Review and the International Conference on Thai Studies.
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