Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections : : Decoding Cultural Heritage / / ed. by Anjana Sharma.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (285 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • 1. Introduction: Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections - Decoding Cultural Heritage
  • 2. Negotiating Place and Heritage: Creating Nalanda University
  • 3. India, Magadha, Nalanda: Ecology and a Premodern World System
  • 4. Collecting the Region: Configuring Bihar in the Space of Museums
  • 5. Heritage Preservation in the Gaya Region
  • 6. Setting the "Records" Straight: Textual Sources on Nālandā and Their Historical Value
  • 7. "Central India Is What Is Called the Middle Kingdom"
  • 8. The Object / The Tree: Emissaries of Buddhist Ground
  • 9. Tracing Transregional Networks and Connections Across the Indic Manuscript Cultures of Nusantara (AD 1400-1600)
  • 10. Seeking a Sufi Heritage in the Deccan
  • 11. Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Spatial Comparison of Nineteenth Century Observations and the Protected World Heritage Site
  • 12. A Heritage Gem Sits in the Heart of a City, Unacknowledged, Incognito: The Case for Recognizing Kolkata Chinatown as a Historic Urban Landscape
  • INDEX