In 2021, archaeologist Pierre-Yves Manguin published an article entitled “Srivijaya: Trade and Connectivity in the Pre-modern Malay World.” At the beginning of the article, Manguin traces the history of the…
Over the past couple of months, I have written a lot of blog posts on the scholarship on “Srivijaya” that makes use of Chinese sources.In particular, I went back to…
One of the core inscriptions that is cited in the Srivijaya narrative, the Ligor Inscription, as well as some inscriptions from southern India, mention alongside the name “Srivijaya” the name…
The first fifty years of scholarship on “Srivijaya” was conducted through the study of inscriptions and texts. Then in in 1974, a group from Indonesia and America supported by the…
In the 1930s, after scholars had investigated the topic of “Srivijaya” for more than a decade, some of the core ideas in George Cœdès’s 1918 article, “Le Royaume de Çrivijaya,”…
In his 1918 article, “Le Royaume de Çrivijaya,” George Cœdès examined information from three types of sources—inscriptions, Arabic texts, and Chinese texts—to make the argument that there had historically existed…