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How did Indian culture spread in the South-east Asiatic countries during the Gupta Age?
- UPSC 1997
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
The question asks for mechanism, not merely evidence of contact: it is not enough to note that Sanskrit inscriptions or Gupta-style images appear in Java or Cambodia — the more interesting problem is what carried them there, who adopted them, and how completely the resulting cultures should be described as "Indianised" at all.
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- The Setting: Maritime Trade as Carrier
- Channels of Transmission
- Historiographical Debate: "Greater India" versus Local Agency
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