India-Thailand Cultural Interactions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. India–Thailand Cultural Interactions: A Study of Shared Cultural Markers

   • Lipi Ghosh

   Pages 1-11

3. Brahmanical Divinities in Siam: From Early to Modern Era

   • Bhaswati Mukhopadhyay

   Pages 13-34

4. Buddhist Moulded Clay Tablets from Dvaravatī: Understanding Their Regional Variations and Indian Linkages

   • Suchandra Ghosh

   Pages 35-51

5. Mandapas of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand

   • Chotima Chaturawong

   Pages 53-85

6. Refashioning the Identity of Siamese Monarchs: Hybridized Siamese and Indian Dress Styles

   • M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Greg Morae Kim-Ju

   Pages 87-100

7. From Indian Mind to Thai Heart: Buddhist Cult to Ganesh Puja

   • Kanopporn Wongkalasin

   Pages 101-109

8. Understanding Thai Music Through Indian Music

   • Rangsiphan Khaengkhan

   Pages 111-122

9. Suvannabhūmi: Facts of Linguistic and Cultural Literary Partnership Between India and Thailand

   • Dipak Kumar Barua

   Pages 123-133

10. Thai Language and Literature: Glimpses of Indian Influence

    • Lipi Ghosh, Kanokwan Jayadat

    Pages 135-160

11. Deficiency of Food Security for the ‘Kitchen of the World’

    • Kriengsak Chareonwongsak

    Pages 161-180

12. Interacting Cultural Diplomacy: A Study of Soft Power in India–Thailand Relations

    • Piyanat Soikham

    Pages 181-204

13. Back Matter

    Pages 205-224

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This volume looks at facets of cultural interactions between India and Thailand---two historically significant countries of the South East Asian region. For the first time a comprehensive discussion on historical and contemporary cultural interactions between Indian and Thailand has been attempted in this volume. Asianization has become an important contemporary concept and, in this context, understanding cultural exchange within Asia is an important exercise. The chapters in this volume include contributions from noted scholars based in India and Thailand on different areas of cultural exchange: from religion, to art, artefacts, clothing, music---especially Indian classical music, cuisine, and the contemporary use of shared civilizational tools in the cultural diplomacy of both countries. Written in a lucid and accessible language, the chapters in this insightful volume are of interest to academics and researchers of cultural studies, Asian studies, development studies, modern Asian history, policy makers and general readers.

• Asianization
• Indo-Thai relations
• Buddhism in Southeast Asia
• shared culture in Asia
• brahmanical divinities in Thailand
• Bodhisattva
• cultural roots of the Indian Ocean
• Buddha statues in India and Thailand
• dress styles in India and Thailand
• Thai music
• Indian architectural influence on Thailand

• Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

  Lipi Ghosh

Lipi Ghosh is Professor and Former Director of the Centre for South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta. She founded, organised and has been administrating the Indian Association for Asian & Pacific Studies, an international forum for scholars of Asian and Pacific research interests. Professor Ghosh is a Former Asia Fellow, CWIT Fellow, ICCR Chair Professor and Nehru-Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow. She is one of the distinguished scholars of South East Asian studies in India and specializes in Myanmar and Thai studies. She has many published works to her credit, including authored and edited volumes, on Asian cultural studies. She knows Thai language, a rare qualification among Indian social scientists. 

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