Himanshu Prabha Ray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 953440 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Himanshu Prabha Ray |
| PRENOMES | Himanshu Prabha |
| SOBRENOME | Ray |
| ASSINATURA | RAY H P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7710-7250 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
India in the Indian Ocean World
Some Reflections on Jean-François Salles’s (1944–2023) Work in South Asia
Constructing Kanchi
Kanchi or Kanchipuram, located on the Palar River in the South Indian state of Tamilnadu, is popularly known as a city of a thousand temples, with the list of favorites varying based on personal choice. Several scholars have written architectural histories of individual temples, from C. Minakshi's 1941 study of the Vaikuntha Perumal Temple at Kanchipuram to the subsequent overview of regional styles in the Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architect…
The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples
In Swat, a region in the mountain periphery of Gandhara, archaeology has long confirmed the existence of a monumental phase of Hindu architecture from the 8th to 14th centuries, in a period that is also characterized by the extensive reintroduction of Sanskrit and the Brahmi-Sarada script. The first important set of inscriptions was documented in Laghman, Gandhara (and Swat), and in the Punjab, dating to a period starting from the 8th century. Ho…
Colonial Archaeology in South Asia
Interest in the material remains of the past in Europe dates to the early 17th century, though archaeology as a discipline developed only two hundred years later. It was transposed to the Indian subcontinent once British colonial rule was established in the region, in the 19th century. Archaeological practice has often been discussed in secondary writings as presenting a “scientific” approach to the study of the past, though from the 1990s onward…
Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples
Introduction to the colonial interlude
The final section of the handbook addresses an under-researched theme relating to irreversible changes introduced by the colonial state from the 18th to 20th century with reference to the protection and preservation of the Hindu temple as also its study. The nineteenth-century colonial legislation based on a Victorian understanding of Hinduism transformed traditional mechanisms of maintenance of the shrine by fragmenting ownership and control of …
Power, Presence and Space
The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World
This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the pre-modern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in the archaeological and historical record. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of t…
Culture and Diplomacy
The article argues that UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention provides a global platform for projecting not only India’s maritime cultural heritage but also building bridges and collaborative networks with other Indian Ocean littoral countries for the promotion of shared cultural practices and traditional knowledge systems of the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately, this collaborative research aspect of the World Heritage Convention has yet to be tappe…
Sailing Ships, Naval Expeditions and ‘Project Mausam’
In recent years, sailing ships of the Indian Navy have been increasingly involved in diplomatic missions and cultural voyages across the world, in addition to their primary purpose of providing practical training in navigation techniques and seamanship. These three-masted barques built at the Goa Shipyard and used by the Indian Navy are very different from wooden sailing vessels that traversed the Indian Ocean in the premodern period prior to the…
Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks Across India and Southeast Asia
This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of these shrines, and highlights their interconnections, and their role in social integration in S…
Early Historic Gujarat and the Trading World of the Western Indian Ocean
The chapter discusses the cultural milieu of seafaring activity in Gujarat between the fourth century BCE and the fourth century CE, the objective being to highlight the cultural factors that impacted trans-oceanic contacts. It underscores the autonomy of trading activity, vis-à-vis political organization in this period. Rulers certainly tapped the revenues from trade, but neither controlled nor initiated trade. Trade involved a complex range of …
Negotiating Cultural Identity
Buddhist Monuments Across the Bay of Bengal
Religious architecture, often called ‘monuments’ within the current understanding of ancient shrines, are prominent features of the landscape in South and Southeast Asia. Many of these sites are admired for their artistic and aesthetic appeal and are centres of tourism and travel. This paper traces the historical trajectory of three contemporary monuments of Buddhist affiliation across the Bay of Bengal, namely Nalanda in north India, Borobudur i…
Trans-locality and Mobility across the Bay of Bengal
From Salsette to Socotra
Decolonizing Heritage in South Asia
Phasook Indrawooth
Phasook Indrawooth(10 May 1945 – 7 September 2016) Rasmi Shoocongdej and Himanshu Prabha Ray Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 268] Professor Emerita of Archaeology, Phasook Indrawooth, passed away peacefully on 7 September 2016 at the age of 72 in Bangkok, Thailand. She joined her husband, who had died a few years earlier. The second of six daughters, Phasook Indrawooth was born on 10 May 1945. She became fascinated by Buddhis…
Trading partners across the Indian Ocean
The Cambridge World History
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine mariti…
The West Coast of India and the Maritime World of the Western Indian Ocean
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The Sasanians, who ruled Iran and adjacentcountries from AD 226 to 651 ,played a major role in the trade of Asia. The 'Silk. Road' from China to the West passed through their territory, giving them control of some of the busiest trade routes in Asia. Just as the establishment of the Pax Tartarica stimulated the caravan trade of the thirteenth century, so the Widespread authority exercised by the Sasanians encouraged commerce by enabling merchants…
R.S. Sharma, Rethinking India’s Past (New Delhi
Providing for the Buddha
The Winds of Change
The Winds of Change
Two major trends have so far dominated the maritime history of ancient India: in the western Indian Ocean, the emphasis has been on the enterprise and nautical skills of the foreigners - the Romans and Arabs who relegated Indian seafarers to coastal trade; while in the Bay of Bengal, brahmins as well as Indian merchants are credited with the expansion of Indian culture into Southeast Asia. On the basis of literary, archaeological and ethnographic…
Kanheri
The Buddhist site of Kanheri on the west coast of India continued to receive patronage from the first to the tenth centuries AD. This was in the form of money and land donations in the early centuries of the Christian era, whereas, in the early medieval period, the pilgrims built votive stupas of brick. Enshrined within these stupas were relic caskets and copper plates or stone tablets bearing the Buddhist creed. Many of these stone tablets have …
Monastery and Guild
Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks Across India and Southeast Asia
This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of these shrines, and highlights their interconnections, and their role in social integration in S…
The western Indian Ocean and the early maritime links of the Indian subcontinent
The Political Abuse of History
Early Maritime Contacts Between South and Southeast Asia
An analysis of the archaeological data available in recent years indicates the development of local maritime networks both in peninsular Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent by the middle of the first millennium B.C. By the second-first centuries B.C. these networks formed a part of the larger regional sailing circuit in the Bay of Bengal. Tangible indicators of this are carnelian and glass beads and bronze bowls with a high tin content. A …
Early historical trade
The beginnings of early historical trade may be traced to the sixth century Bc with the epicentre in the middle Ganga valley. A recent study has shown that an elaborate hierarchy of settlements crowned with urban centres had already emerged during this period.’ Even a minor centre such as Jakhera which represents the third rung of the hierarchical order produced evidence of craft activities. These craft activities indicate trading and redistribut…
Archaeology and empire
In this article, which is based largely on archaeological data, I argue that colonial intervention between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries in South and Southeast Asia not only altered the nature of linkages that had existed across Asia from at least the middle of the first millennium BC, but also, and more significantly, redefined our understanding of monuments, especially religious structures, from abodes of spiritual power to objects of …
The apsidal shrine in early Hinduism
This paper argues against the current view that the apsidal form was Buddhist in origin and that apsidal Hindu temples are essentially Buddhist shrines subsequently converted to Hinduism. It also counters the linear view of religious change, which suggests that the Hindu temple came into its own after the decline of Buddhism in the fourth-fifth centuries ad. Instead, the paper establishes that the apsidal form was part of a common architectural v…
Early historical urbanization
In the early centuries of the Christian era, there was an enormous expansion of inland trade networks in the subcontinent, coupled with increased maritime activity between the west coast and the Red Sea ports of the Roman Empire. This led to the rise of urban centres at vantage points along the trade‐routes and in the peripheral and hitherto unoccupied areas. An apt example of this is the region of the western Deccan — an area of isolation which …
The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World
This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the pre-modern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in the archaeological and historical record. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of t…
Sailing Ships, Naval Expeditions and ‘Project Mausam’
In recent years, sailing ships of the Indian Navy have been increasingly involved in diplomatic missions and cultural voyages across the world, in addition to their primary purpose of providing practical training in navigation techniques and seamanship. These three-masted barques built at the Goa Shipyard and used by the Indian Navy are very different from wooden sailing vessels that traversed the Indian Ocean in the premodern period prior to the…
Buddhist Monuments Across the Bay of Bengal
Religious architecture, often called ‘monuments’ within the current understanding of ancient shrines, are prominent features of the landscape in South and Southeast Asia. Many of these sites are admired for their artistic and aesthetic appeal and are centres of tourism and travel. This paper traces the historical trajectory of three contemporary monuments of Buddhist affiliation across the Bay of Bengal, namely Nalanda in north India, Borobudur i…
The Indian Ocean in Antiquity
Seafaring in the Bay of Bengal in the Early Centuries AD
Culture and Diplomacy
The article argues that UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention provides a global platform for projecting not only India’s maritime cultural heritage but also building bridges and collaborative networks with other Indian Ocean littoral countries for the promotion of shared cultural practices and traditional knowledge systems of the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately, this collaborative research aspect of the World Heritage Convention has yet to be tappe…
Seafaring and Maritime Contacts
L'auteur fait le point sur le etudes historiques de la vie et des contacts maritimes de l'Inde ancienne, en proposant une synthese des sources litteraires et archeologiques contribuant a la connaissance de la technologie et du commerce maritime de l'Inde antique et medievale
[Later Prehistory in Southeast Asia and Earliest Contacts With India] in Search of Suvarnabhumi
Trade in the Western Deccan under the Satavahanas
Early historical urbanization
In the early centuries of the Christian era, there was an enormous expansion of inland trade networks in the subcontinent, coupled with increased maritime activity between the west coast and the Red Sea ports of the Roman Empire. This led to the rise of urban centres at vantage points along the trade‐routes and in the peripheral and hitherto unoccupied areas. An apt example of this is the region of the western Deccan — an area of isolation which …
The Yavana Presence in Ancient India
Early Maritime Contacts Between South and Southeast Asia
An analysis of the archaeological data available in recent years indicates the development of local maritime networks both in peninsular Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent by the middle of the first millennium B.C. By the second-first centuries B.C. these networks formed a part of the larger regional sailing circuit in the Bay of Bengal. Tangible indicators of this are carnelian and glass beads and bronze bowls with a high tin content. A …
Early historical trade
The beginnings of early historical trade may be traced to the sixth century Bc with the epicentre in the middle Ganga valley. A recent study has shown that an elaborate hierarchy of settlements crowned with urban centres had already emerged during this period.’ Even a minor centre such as Jakhera which represents the third rung of the hierarchical order produced evidence of craft activities. These craft activities indicate trading and redistribut…
Monastery and Guild
Seafaring in the Bay of Bengal in the Early Centuries AD
The Political Abuse of History
[Later Prehistory in Southeast Asia and Earliest Contacts With India] in Search of Suvarnabhumi
A resurvey of Roman Contacts with the East
La présence des Yavana en Inde ancienne
The western Indian Ocean and the early maritime links of the Indian subcontinent
Kanheri
The Buddhist site of Kanheri on the west coast of India continued to receive patronage from the first to the tenth centuries AD. This was in the form of money and land donations in the early centuries of the Christian era, whereas, in the early medieval period, the pilgrims built votive stupas of brick. Enshrined within these stupas were relic caskets and copper plates or stone tablets bearing the Buddhist creed. Many of these stone tablets have …
Seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean. Research strategies and perspectives
Ray Himanshu Prabha. Seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean. Research strategies and perspectives. In: Topoi, volume 6/2, 1996. pp. 641-647
The Winds of Change
Two major trends have so far dominated the maritime history of ancient India: in the western Indian Ocean, the emphasis has been on the enterprise and nautical skills of the foreigners - the Romans and Arabs who relegated Indian seafarers to coastal trade; while in the Bay of Bengal, brahmins as well as Indian merchants are credited with the expansion of Indian culture into Southeast Asia. On the basis of literary, archaeological and ethnographic…
Seafaring and Maritime Contacts
L'auteur fait le point sur le etudes historiques de la vie et des contacts maritimes de l'Inde ancienne, en proposant une synthese des sources litteraires et archeologiques contribuant a la connaissance de la technologie et du commerce maritime de l'Inde antique et medievale
The Winds of Change
The emergence of urban centres in Bengal
The Indian Ocean in Antiquity
Politics of Silence and Writing of Ancient Indian History
Maritime Archaeology
The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India (review)
Reviewed by: The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India Himanshu Prabha Ray The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India. Monica Smith. BAR International Series 1002. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges Ltd. and Archaeopress, 2001. vi + 163 pp. 48 b/w maps, drawings, and photos. Paper. U.S. $60.00. ISBN 1841711977. In South Asian archaeology, as elsewhere, the objective of surface survey and collection programs has moved b…
The apsidal shrine in early Hinduism
This paper argues against the current view that the apsidal form was Buddhist in origin and that apsidal Hindu temples are essentially Buddhist shrines subsequently converted to Hinduism. It also counters the linear view of religious change, which suggests that the Hindu temple came into its own after the decline of Buddhism in the fourth-fifth centuries ad. Instead, the paper establishes that the apsidal form was part of a common architectural v…
Trade in Early India
Inscribed Pots, Emerging Identities
This chapter is an attempt at defining the social milieu of trade in peninsular India between the 4th century bce and the 4th century ce, the objective being to highlight the social factors that determined economic activity. It is suggested here that in the historical period, one significant use of writing was for trading activity. The chapter primarily focuses on patterns of use and the distribution of written records in an attempt to highlight …
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