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SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia The Newsletter | No.65 | Autumn 2013 44 | The Network News from Asia continued India looked East or the East looked India S.D. Muni INDIA’S ‘LOOK-EAST’ POLICY, contrary to popular assumption, takes the discourse on Indian cultural infl uence even beyond neither started in 1991 nor was it confi ned only to economic Southeast Asia deep into the Pacifi c, linking it to “Oceania engagement with its easterly neighbourhood. As a civilisation and Polynesia” and “aboriginal American cultures” (p.51). of sun worshippers, India has always looked towards, According to Kalidas Nag, “What parts of this cultural complex and engaged with the East, in many varied ways. One can would reach the Eastern Pacifi c basin and the New World are easily identify four phases or waves of India’s eastward yo ho. problems of future anthropologists and antiquarians…” (p.52). The fi rst is historical (pre-colonial), the second is during British Imperialism, the third since independence (1947 onwards) Acharya, on the basis of various studies on the subject, and, most recently, since 1991. Enough attention is being paid rejects the thesis of Indian initiative and enterprise. He makes these days to the last two phases, while there are only scanty, two strong arguments. He notes that the East Asian societies and hazy narratives to unravel the fi rst two. had their own respective cultural identities and there was no question of “passive acceptance” of the Indian infl uences. of regional and international aff airs of particular times. The knowledge gap of the fi rst two phases is gradually drawing They were in fact “active borrowers”, not only seeking selective If it is assumed that the Indian scholars were driven by their scholarly attention. The smallest country of India’s eastern and desired Indian infl uences, but also adjusting and adopting nationalistic and emotional impulses, surely, the European and neighbourhood, Singapore, had made a signifi cant contri- them to their own requirements. Thus the process of Indian East Asian historians also cannot be taken as free from theirs’. bution by publishing three studies within the past two years to infl uence was not Indianisation, but a regional localisation The confusion created by such impulses can only be reduced if energize academic discourse on India’s engagement with the of Indian best practices. This is illustrated, for example, by not completely removed, by further scholarly explorations based East during the historical period.1 All three studies underscore referring to the “diff erences in the practice of Theravada on hard and authentic evidence. The message of the studies by the predominantly peaceful nature of this engagement that Buddhism between Thailand and Burma” (p.25). He also brings both Acharya and Chong-Guan is that the fi eld of studying link- was based on fl ourishing trade and cultural links. The only in the fl ow of Chinese infl uence, particularly in Vietnam, in ages between India and East Asia is still in its infancy and more contestations to this assumption come from Balaji and Geoff support of his ‘localisation’ argument (p.27). Acharya fi nally archaeological fi ndings, discovery of, and discourse on historical Wade, who wrote the ‘Foreword’ (pp.vii-xv) in Acharya’s book. supports the view taken by Hermann Kulke that Indian impact evidences and taking a fresh look at the available sources are Both writers mention the aggressive missions of the Cholas on Southeast Asia must be seen neither as Indianisation nor needed. Until that is done in suffi cient strength, fi rm conclusions Empire during the early 11th Century CE, but no authentic localisation, but as a “convergence” of cultures and their like ‘Indianisation’ or ‘convergence’ must wait. and reliable evidence is provided on the military nature evolution. India and Southeast Asia had a lot in common of the Cholas’ forays into the East. Balaji clearly states that and evolved on the basis of “give and take”. The resilience Even currently available evidences have not yet been properly “There are no contemporary records to explain the nature of Hinduism and the use of the Sanskrit language are referred organised and interpreted. For instance, the studies under review or reason for the hostile Chola naval expedition” (p.129). to, to buttress the ‘convergence’ proposition (p.35). are based largely on Indonesian and Malay cultures, but say so little about evidences from countries such as Laos and Thailand. Chong-Guan’s volume contains a chapter by R.C. Majumdar Chong Guan’s volume presents rich and diverse perspectives Laos has pre-Angkor archaeological fi ndings and living evidences on ‘The Struggle between the Shailendras and the Cholas’ on the so-called ‘Indianisation’ of Southeast Asia, which in its Mekong basin area of strong Shaivaite Hindu culture, which (pp.119-133) where Chola’s “great naval power” and “aggressive does not fully submit itself to the charges of being a process linked itself with Khmer in Cambodia and Champa in Vietnam. imperialism” are noted, but Majumdar also acknowledges the of “colonial and imperial expansion”. Acharya admits to a There is hardly any scholarly study of these linkages. Cambodia has existence of friendly and commercial relations between the ‘hint’ in Majumdar’s writings, otherwise branded as an Indian also just discovered a whole new city further north of Angkor Wat. Chola Kings and Shailendra rulers. Majumdar’s narrative also nationalist Indianisation proponent, “that the Indian cultural suggests strong commercial links between the Cholas and interactions with Southeast Asians might have been a two-way There is greater need to support such studies, not only in China. The possibility of the Cholas using naval power to secure street of mutual infl uence” (p.14). Chong-Guan in his masterly Singapore, but also in Indonesia, Malaysia and of course, above their trade with China from disruptions caused by the Shailendra introduction to the anthology, quotes Majumdar as saying all, in India. The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre at the Institute of rulers cannot be ruled out. In that case, Chola’s use of naval “there was a complete cultural fusion between the two races”. Southeast Asian Studies has set out to do pioneering work power was more for the protection of their commercial interests He extensively refers to Rabindranath Tagore, the moving spirit in this fi eld. The new Nalanda University must have a special than for territorial expansion or imperial aggression. This is, of the Greater India Society, to show that historians were driven mission to explore the pasts of India and Southeast Asia that however, an area that calls for further archaeological and not by narrow nationalism but were fi red by “international continue to thrive in their ‘presents’ and have a great promise academic research. Even if Chola aggression can be substan- humanism”. In Chong-Guan’s assessment, “in contrast to the for their ‘futures’. Studies like that of Kalidas Nag on ‘India and tiated, it is only one example so far, contrary to the otherwise violence of European colonialism” the “Indian colonisation the Pacifi c World’ may provide a thrust to new concepts such peaceful and mutually benefi cial contacts between India and of the Far East was peaceful, humane, benign and welcomed as ‘Indo-Pacifi c’, at a time when the Asia-Pacifi c region is the civilisations to its east, spanning almost a millennia. by the pre-literate natives”. The legacy of the Greater India unfolding its new strategic contours. Society is being continued, in the words of Chong-Guan, All the three studies underscore the impact of Indian culture by “a new generation of Indian Institutions and scholars”, S.D. Muni, Visiting Research Professor, ISEAS, Singapore and civilisation on the Southeast Asian countries. Indian who also distance themselves from any nationalist or India presence was predominant not only in art and architecture, dominated view of scholars like “Majumdar and Coedès”. religion, social structures and language, but also in political He quotes G.C. Pandey, the editor of Interaction with Southeast Notes organisations, legal systems and forms of governance. Asia, saying that “the development of common and parallel 1 Acharya, A. 2013. Civilizations in Embrace: The Spread of Ideas The footprints of that presence are visible even today in civilisational trails in India and Southeast Asia” came “through and the Transformation of Power, India and Southeast Asia in the monuments such as Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Borobudur a long process of interchange”. This cannot be denied, as Classical Age, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Temple in Indonesia. The main question at stake is how this cultures are inherently porous, evolutionary and transnational. ISEAS Nalanda-Sriwijaya Research Series. Indian infl uence travelled East. Chong-Guan’s volume, being Balaji, S. 2011. The Dancing Girl : A History of Early India, Singapore: based on the Journal of the Greater India Society, clearly supports Historiography is not a fundamental science. It depends Institute of Southeast Asian Studies the thesis that the “Indianisation” of Southeast Asia was upon available data and their considerable subjective inter- Kwa Chong-Guan (ed.) 2013. Early Southeast Asia Viewed from India: primarily an Indian enterprise spanning more than twelve pretations. Subjectivity in historical explorations creeps in, An Anthology of Articles from the Journal of the Greater India Society, centuries. One of the chapters in this volume (‘India and the not only because of the nationalities of the scholars but also New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, ISEAS Nalanda- Pacifi c World’ by U.N. Ghoshal), quoting Kalidas Nag’s study, because of the political, economic and strategic contexts Sriwijaya Series. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia SINCE ITS LAUNCH IN 1986, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia changing social dynamics in Southeast Asia, it welcomes (http://www.iseas.edu.sg/sojourn.cfm) has served as the fl agship periodical of work from across the social sciences and humanities.
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