The South East Asian Review
Founded by Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai and late Dr. Sudha Verma
Current Volume: 47 (2022 )
ISSN: 0257-7364
Periodicity: Yearly
Month(s) of Publication: December
Subject: Anthropology Social Science Archaeology
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The South East Asian Review (SEAR) is an interdisciplinary research journal which welcomes papers on any aspect of South East Asian culture, art, archaeology, history, society, religion, language, politics, economy, traditional knowledge, natural and cultural heritage. Since 1976, the goal of the journal has been to disseminate knowledge of the common cultural heritage of India and South East Asia. The journal provides a forum for a broad and diverse group of scholars interested in the study of South East Asia and with a specific thrust on the scholarly works in humanities and social sciences.
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Editor -in -chief Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India Former National Professor of Epigraphy, Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India International Program Coordinator For the Sanskrit Center in Bangkok, Thailand Nakhon Sawan Rajabhat University Nakhon Sawan, Thailand Assistant Professor Former Professor and Chairperson Former Regional Director (Ranchi) Assistant Professor Retired Lecturer Fellow (Rajapandita) Managing Editor
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Editorial Board
Willard Van De Bogart
Dr. Manjil Hazarika
Department of Archaeology
Cotton University, Assam, India
Ganga Nath Jha
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
Bachchan Kumar
In-Charge, South East Asian Studies
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts,
New Delhi, India
B.K. Mishra
Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
PLS College, Patna, India
Dean Myers
Southeast Asian History
Jesuit Sophia University, Tokyo
Chirapat Prapandvidya
Royal Society of Thailand
Advisor to Sanskrit Studies Centre
Faculty of Archaeology
Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Soma Sahai-Srivastava
Clinical Professor of Neurology Director
Neurology Clinics and Division Chief
Department of Neurology
Keck Medical Centre of USC
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Volume 47 Issue 1 , (Jan-2022 to Dec-2022)
Rediscovering Koh Ker
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 1-4
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.1
Price: 500
The Rise of Koh Ker
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 5-21
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.2
Price: 500
The Step-Pyramid of Prasat Thom
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 23-33
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.3
Price: 500
Koh Ker Seen From Sdok Kak Thom
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 35-38
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.4
Price: 500
Inscriptions of Koh Ker
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 39-45
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.5
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The Dancing Shiva of Prasat Krahom
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 47-68
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.6
Price: 500
Prasat Chen - the Theatre Temple
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 69-71
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.7
Price: 500
Prajapatishvara
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 73-74
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.8
Price: 500
Collective Memory
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 75-78
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.9
Price: 500
The Sculptural Art of Koh Ker
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 79-82
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.10
Price: 500
Temples Around Rahal
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 83-92
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.11
Price: 500
The Water Resources
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 93-95
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.12
Price: 500
Jayavarman VII's Hospital
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 97-98
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.13
Price: 500
The Temple
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 99-99
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.14
Price: 500
Conclusion
By: Sachchidanand Sahai
Page No : 101-103
Author :
Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai
Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Advisor to Apsara Authority, Siem Riep, Cambodia
Former Chair, Department Ancient Indian and Asian Studies
Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, India
Former National Professor of Epigraphy,
Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Survey of India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/SEAR.2022.47.15
Price: 500
Jan-2020 to Dec-2021
Editorial
Dr. Manjil Hazarika
Guest Editor
Assistant Professor
Department of Archaeology
Cotton University
Assam - India
Page No : i - iii
Cranio-Facial Morphology: Scenario in the Indian Sub-Continent and Future Plan for Study of Prehistoric Population of Thailand
By: Worrawit Boonthai , Subhash R. Walimbe
Page No : 1-17
Abstract
The pre-agricultural phase represents a brief span of a few thousand years between the Upper Palaeolithic and Neolithic stages and can be taken as a transitory phase from a food-gathering to a food-producing society. Widespread use of microliths and regular use of the bow and arrow indicate more intensive exploitation of natural resources of localised ecological niches, a subsistence based on hunting, gathering and fishing. On the other hand, the Neolithic, Metal age, and chronologically later sites which flourished in Thailand after c. 5000 BCE marks the beginning of sedentism. For these societies, subsistence was primarily based on agriculture, supplemented by stock-raising and hunting-fishing. The food economy was based on a combination of agricultural products and aquatic and land-animal food including both domestic and wild. The change from nomadic hunting-gathering to settled or semi-settled agriculture and/or pastoral lifeways was a major cultural change observed by human societies after the Neolithic transition. Human morphology especially cranio-facial, responded to this cultural change and the human skeletal remains recovered from this time frame are worth studying to examine bodily impact of the cultural change. In addition, higher morbidity in the settled early farming communities might also have contributed to the comparatively delicate built. This hypothesis has been successfully tested for sites in the Indian sub-continent. In future such parallel attempt is worth trying in Thailand. In the larger interest it would be beneficial to judge the importance of Thailand prehistoric skeletal features in prospective evolutionary studies by observing the microevolutionary trends in cranio-facial and post-cranial evolution that are accepted on global scale.
Price: 101
Neolithic Artefacts From Letpanchaypaw Site, Central Myanmar
By: Kyaw Khaing , Aung Ko Latt , Kaung Si Thu , Tin Htut Aung , Zaw Phyo , Kyaw Myo Satt
Page No : 19-35
Abstract
The Neolithic Site of Letpanchaypaw is located between Bagan World Heritage Site and Pakokku town and on the left bank of Ayeyarwaddy River in Central Myanmar. It is located west of the Badahlin cave site producing early Neolithic industry and is also located between Hanlan Pyu ancient city in North and Beikthano and Sriksetra Pyu ancient cities in the South. These Pyu urban cities are of the early Iron Age and the first urban state in Myanmar. According to cultural evidence in Letpanchaypaw, the people from there are related to trade exchange with some Neolithic sites north of this site and Hanlin Neolithic-early Iron industrial site in the north. According to the cultural layer, there are more than three occupation layers and the lowest layer is related to the early Neolithic and the other two are related to the late Neolithic period.
Authors:
Kyaw Khaing
Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Yangon, Myanmar
Aung Ko Latt
Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Yangon, Myanmar
Kaung Si Thu
Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Yangon, Myanmar
Kyaw Myo Satt
Department of Archaeology, University of Yangon, Myanmar
Tin Htut Aung
Department of Archaeology, University of Yangon, Myanmar
Zaw Phyo
Department of Archaeology, University of Yangon, Myanmar
Price: 101
The Megalithic Cultural Remains in Myanmar
By: Win Kyaing
Page No : 37-53
Abstract
Classification of megalithic remains in Myanmar relies upon establishing a firm chronology for the Late Holocene of Neolithic to Early Historic periods. This paper focuses on defining phases within the Chalcolithic to Neolithic, dating to circa the first millennium BCE. The paper opens with a summary of the history and chronology on this era followed by descriptions of the relevant Chalcolithic and Neolithic sites and a typology of menhirs. The next section of the paper discusses the megalithic remains at known sites. The paper concludes with a discussion of the northern and southern Chin areas adjacent to Manipur where megaliths continue to be used to this day. These suggest links and possibly cultural diffusion from the Northeastern India to Myanmar.
Author:
Win Kyaing
Director and Principal Field School of Archaeology (Pyay)
Price: 101
Impact of Indian Cultures on Southern Thailand with special Reference to Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
By: Thanon Chitkament
Page No : 55-81
Abstract
This paper is an endeavour to show how Indian influences in numerous forms can be easily observed upon the culture of ancient Thailand, both social and material, within an archaeological context. It is surmised that Hinduism reached Southern Thailand owing to Indian merchants around the 5th century CE, and spread to Nakhon Si Thammarat, which became a flourishing religious centre. The ancient art objects such as icons and sculptures, epigraphs, monuments, besides coins and seals have been found dated to around the 7th - 13th century CE, which indicate the chronology of Hinduism in that period. Therefore, this work is an attempt to discuss the correlations between different aspects of objects, discovered in Thailand, mainly in Nakhon Si Thammarat province showing the nature of impact to understand the interaction between India and southern Thailand in terms of economy and trade, religion, society and culture.
Author:
Thanon Chitkament
47 Bis rue de Maine, 72200, Bazouges-sur-le-Loir, France
Price: 101
Vrah r
By: Abira Bhattacharya
Page No : 83-118
Authors :
Abira Bhattacharya
Assistant Curator (Department of Anthropology),
National Museum, Janpath,
Price: 101
Royal Barge Procession in Thailand
By: Chedha Tingsanchali
Page No : 119-129
Author:
Chedha Tingsanchali
Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Price: 101
Returning to the Esoteric Universe at Prasat Phimai - A Study of Select Buddhist Reliefs
By: Sama Haq
Page No : 131-152
Author :
Sama Haq
Consultant (Central Asian Antiquities) National Museum, New Delhi
Price: 101
An Investigation of Naga Art in Buddhist Temples of Mueang Chiang Mai District, Thailand
By: Ya-Liang Chang
Page No : 153-171
Abstract
The importance of Naga art has two aspects; firstly, in terms of the research value, Naga is an important design element in Buddhist temples in Thailand. It is particularly seen in architectural decoration and ornaments, yet little research has been done on Naga. Secondly, Naga art of Northern Thailand also has local characteristics. Buddhist temples are important places for observing Buddhist art. Chiang Mai was the capital of the Lanna Kingdom from the 13th century CE; accordingly, there are important Buddhist temples in abundance in the old town. In other words, the Buddhist temples in Chiang Mai are significant representative of Lanna culture. This study involved field research, recording Naga arts in 34 Buddhist temples of the Mueang Chiang Mai District, aimed to explore the characteristics of Naga art in Northern Thailand. The results of this research show that the Naga art of Northern Thailand has local characteristics, as revealed by their motifs, shapes, patterns, and so on.
Author :
Ya-Liang Chang
Associate Professor,
College of Fine Arts,
Huanggang Normal University,
China
Price: 101
Divination as an Indigenous Practice among the Ahom and the Lua: A Comparative Study
By: Shrutashwinee Gogoi
Page No : 173-185
Author :
Shrutashwinee Gogoi
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy Moran College,
Charaideo, Assam.
Price: 101
Brand New Balinese Water Puppetry
By: Shrutashwinee Gogoi
Page No : 187-200
Authors
Nyoman Sedana
Director of Bali Module and PEPADI, Bali
Indonesian Arts Institute (ISI), Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Made Sidia
Wayang Puppeteer and Trainer, Bali, Indonesia
Price: 101
Instruction to the Author
The manuscript for publication should be submitted by Email to the Editor (Dr. Sachchidanand Sahai, Email: ssahai4@hotmail.com) or through the online submission link of the journal (https://southeastasianreview.com/index.html), written in English with British spelling with a cover letter addressed to the Editor.
Reference Style Guidelines
All references must be cited in the text or tables with author-years style. Examples for preparing the reference:
• Diamond, J. and P. Bellwood. 2003. Farmers and their languages: the first expansions. Science 300 (5619): 597-603
• Paddayya, K. 1990. Theoretical Perspectives in Indian Archaeology: A Historical Review, in Theory in Archaeology - A World Perspective, ed. P.J. Ucko, pp. 110-149. London: Routledge.
• Sahai, S. 2007. The Bayon of Angkor Thom. Bangkok: White Lotus.