TY - BOOK AU - Sharma TI - Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections SN - 9789814786423 AV - DS33.3 .R436 2018 U1 - 950 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute KW - Asia-Relations KW - Asia-Civilization KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Table of Contents -- 1. INTRODUCTION: Records, Recoveries, Remnantsand Inter-Asian Interconnections - Decoding Cultural Heritage by Anjana Sharma -- 2. NEGOTIATING PLACE AND HERITAGE: Creating Nalanda University by Gopa Sabharwal -- 3. INDIA, MAGADHA, NALANDA: Ecology and a Premodern World System by Frederick Asher -- 4. COLLECTING THE REGION: Configuring Bihar in the Space of Museums by Sraman Mukherjee -- 5. HERITAGE PRESERVATION IN THE GAYA REGION by Abhishek S. Amar -- 6. SETTING THE "RECORDS" STRAIGHT: Textual Sources on Nālandā and Their Historical Value by Max Deeg -- 7. "CENTRAL INDIA IS WHAT IS CALLED THEMIDDLE KINGDOM" by Anne Cheng -- 8. THE OBJECT | THE TREE: Emissaries of Buddhist Ground by Padma D. Maitland -- 9. TRACING TRANSREGIONAL NETWORKS AND CONNECTIONS ACROSS THE INDIC MANUSCRIPT CULTURES OF NUSANTARA (AD 1400-1600) by Andrea Acri -- 10. SEEKING A SUFI HERITAGE IN THE DECCAN by Kashshaf Ghani -- 11. ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS AT NALANDA: A Spatial Comparison of Nineteenth Century Observations and the Protected World Heritage Site by M.B. Rajani and Sonia Das -- 12. A HERITAGE GEM SITS IN THE HEART OF A CITY, UNACKNOWLEDGED, INCOGNITO: The Case for Recognizing Kolkata Chinatown as a Historic Urban Landscape by Rinkoo Bhowmik -- INDEX N2 - 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 this collection's core narrative. The multidisciplinary essays interrogate ways in which ideas, objects, texts, and travellers have shaped -- and in turn have been shaped by -- changing global politics and the historical imperative that underpins them UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5380491 ER -