Contents:
PART I: NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH ASIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA-
1. Central Vietnam during the Period from 500 BCE to CE 500, by Lam Thi My Dzung;
2. Ban Don Ta Phet and Khao Sam Kaeo: The Earliest Indian Contacts Re-assessed, by Ian C Glover , Bérénice Bellina;
3. Preliminary Study of Indian and Indian Style Wares from Khao Sam Kaeo (Chumphon, Peninsular Thailand), Fourth-Second Centuries BCE, by Phaedra Bouvet;
4. Early Contacts between India and the Andaman Coast in Thailand from the Second Century BCE to Eleventh Century CE, by Boonyarit Chaisuwan;
5. The Batujaya Site: New Evidence of Early Indian Influence in West Java, by Pierre-Yves Manguin, Agustijanto Indradjaja;
6. Continuity and Change in South Indian Involvement in Northern Sumatra: The Inferences of Archaeological Evidence from Kota Cina and Lamreh, by Edmund Edwards-McKinnon;
7. South Asia and the Tapanuli Area (North-West Sumatra): Ninth-Fourteenth Centuries CE, by Daniel Perret, Heddy Surachman;
8. Emergence of Early Historic Trade in Peninsular India, by K Rajan;
9. Contacts between India and Southeast Asia in Ceramic and Boat Building Traditions, by V Selvakumar;
10. Marine Archaeological Investigations along the Tamil Nadu Coast and their Implications for Understanding Cultural Expansion to Southeast Asian Countries, by Sundaresh, A S Gaur;

PART II: LOCALISATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA-
11. Tamil Merchants and the Hindu-Buddhist Diaspora in Early Southeast Asia, by John Guy;
12. The Spread of Sanskrit in Southeast Asia, by Johannes Bronkhorst;
13. The Early Inscriptions of Indonesia and the Problem of the Sanskrit Cosmopolis, by Daud Ali;
14. Indian Architecture in the Sanskrit Cosmopolis: The Temples of the Dieng Plateau, by Julie Romain;
15. The Importance of Gupta-period Sculpture in Southeast Asian Art History, by Robert L Brown;
16. Individuals under the Glaze: Local Transformations of Indianisation in the Decorative Lintels of Angkor, by Martin Polkinghorne;
17. Early Musical Exchange between India and Southeast Asia, by Arsenio Nicolas;
18. Buddhism and the Circulation of Ritual in Early Peninsular Southeast Asia, by Peter Skilling;
19. Early Buddhism in Myanmar: Ye Dhamm? Inscriptions from Arakan, by Kyaw Minn Htin;
20. Hindu Deities in Southern Vietnam: Images on Small Archaeological Artefacts, by Le Thi Lien;
21. The Depositing of the Embryo Temple Consecration Rituals in the Hindu Tradition of South and Southeast Asia: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence, by Anna A Slaczka;
22. Localisation of Indian Influences as Reflected in the Laotian Versions of the Ramayana, by Sachchidanand Sahai;
23. Broken Threads: Contested Histories of Brahminism in Cambodia and Thailand and the Construction of Ritual Authority, by Boreth Ly;
List of Contributors;
Index.