Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Information
- Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian InterconnectionsDecoding Cultural Heritage, pp. v - viPublisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2018