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The Government of India’s Act East Policy, which was launched at the East Asia Summit in Myanmar in November 2014, has provided accelerated momentum to engagement with countries of Southeast Asia. The underlining principle of the policy, ‘connectivity, culture, and commerce’, has placed cultural interactions both in the contemporary period and historically at the forefront of this framework. This reorientation has led to introspection regarding a range of relevant themes, such as changing perspectives in the study and research of cultural interactions across the region in history; the need to expand multilateral conversations among researchers and students regarding the relevance of the past to the present and the future; and to include in the discussion not only the ancient past, but also the more recent past, when most parts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, with the exception of Thailand, were colonized by European powers.
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Saran, S. (2018). Introduction. In: Saran, S. (eds) Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7317-5_1
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