History of Southeast Asia up to the 16th century

Paper Code:

24DHIS 511(B)

Credits:

Contact Hours:

90.00

Max. Marks:

100.00

Objective:

Course Objective

This course offers an overview of pre colonial Southeast Asian history. It seeks to familiarise students with historiographical debates involving the construction of Southeast Asia as a region. It analyses processes of state formations, the impact of maritime activity on society and polity in the mainland and the archipelago. It focuses on the development and localization of religious traditions across a linguistically and culturally diverse region. The paper will require students to engage with recent developments in the historiography especially with recent research on aspects of social and political history, external influences on the region, architecture, urban history and its local histories. Through this the student will develop a clear and comprehensive understanding of different aspects of pre modern Southeast Asian history

Course Outcomes:

Course Outcomes (CO)

Course

Learning outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24DHIS 511(B)

History of Southeast Asia up to the 16th century

CO67- Analyse the historiographical debates involving the construction of Southeast Asia as a region.

CO68- Assess the State formation and social structures of early Kingdoms

CO69-Critically evaluate the economic history of South East Asia and its trade connection with the Africa and Europe.

CO70- Make an estimate of localization of religious traditions across a linguistically and culturally diverse region

CO71 Examine the growth and development of Art and Architecture of South east Asian Countries

CO72- Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Use of Maps and Globe, Power Point Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

18.00

Unit I:

Introducing Greater India

[a] Maritime and Mainland Southeast Asia; diversity within the macroregions

[b] sources and historiographical trends -- Indianization/ Sinicization/ Localization

18.00

Unit II:

State formation

[a] The early kingdoms; later polities (especially Pagan, Srivijaya, Champa,

Angkor)

[b] Social structure

18.00

Unit III:

Trade

[a] Routes and commodities;

[b] Maritime and overland connections with Asia, Africa and

Europe

18.00

Unit IV:

Religion

[a] The spread and localization of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam;

[b] Popular beliefs;

[c] Literary and visual narrations of the epics and Buddhist legends

18.00

Unit V:

Art and Architecture

[a] Prehistoric Bronze and iron age sites

[b] History of monuments and sculptures -- Cambodia, Indonesia,

Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam (any three)

Essential Readings:

ESSENTIAL READINGS:

Guy, J., et al. 2014. Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of South and Southeast Asia. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press.
Hall, K.R. and Whitmore, J.K. Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History: the origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft. Ann Arbor: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan. Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, 11.
Klokke, M., ed. 2000. Narrative Sculpture and Literary Traditions in South and Southeast Asia. Leiden: Brill.
Manguin, P.-Y., A. Mani and G. Wade, eds., 2011. Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-cultural Exchange, ISEAS, Singapore.
Raghavan, V., ed. 2009. (reprint). The Ramayana Tradition in Asia. New Delhi: SahityaAkademi.75
Singh, U., and P.P. Dhar, eds., 2014. Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories,OUP, Delhi.
Tarling, N., ed. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (vol. 1, part 1: from earliest times to 1500 CE), Cambridge University Press, 2000 (paperback edition).
Wolters, O.W. 1999. History, Culture and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives, Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University; Revised edition.

References:

SUGGESTED READINGS:

Chaudhuri, K.N. 1985. Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
Majumdar R C , Suvarnadvipa :Ancient Indian Colonies in Far East , Vol. I & II
Wales HG Quaritch , The making of Greater India A study of South-East Asian Cultural Change, London,1951
Coedes G, The Indianised States of South-East Asia, Translator Susan B Cowing, University of Hawaii Press, 1948,1968; The Making of South-East Asia
Girard-Geslan, M., M. Klokke, A. Le Bonheur, D.M. Stadtner, T. Zephir.Art of Southeast Asia, Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
Hall, K. 1985. Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Kulke, H. [1993] 2001. Kings and Cults: State Formation and Legitimation in India and Southeast Asia. New Delhi: Manohar.
Kulke, H, K.Kesavapany, and V.Sakhuja, 2009. Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa:reflections on the Chola Expeditions to Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Marr, D.G. and A.C. Milner, eds. 1986. Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries.
Ray, H.P. 1994. The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime links of Early SouthAsia. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Singapore and Canberra: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.
Smith, R.B. and W. Watson, 1979. Early South East Asia: essays in archaeology, history and historical geography. New York and Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.76