George Coedes's The Indianized States of Southeast Asia is a classic and still widely cited scholarly synthesis tracing how Indian religious, political and cultural models spread across and were adapted by early Southeast Asian kingdoms, written by one of the twentieth century's leading epigraphers of the region working directly from inscriptional evidence. Its authority rests on Coedes's own foundational decipherment work with Khmer, Cham and other regional inscriptions. As a mid-twentieth century synthesis, its framing of the process as one-directional Indianization has been substantially qualified by later scholarship emphasizing local agency and selective adaptation rather than passive cultural reception, a corrective worth reading alongside Coedes's still-valuable underlying epigraphic and chronological work.
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George Coedes's The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, published by the University of Hawaii Press, is a classic scholarly synthesis by one of the twentieth century's leading epigraphers of the region, treated at the top tier as academic press scholarship, notwithstanding that its one-directional framing has been substantially qualified by later scholarship emphasizing local agency. NotesScholarly history of the Indianized kingdoms of Southeast Asia.
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AuthorGeorge Coedes
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
1968, translated by Susan Brown Cowing, edited by Walter F. Vella, from the 1964 third French edition; per the publisher's own catalogue. Publication Year1968
Source Typeacademic monograph
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