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Advertisement “Connecting with history,” the spokesperson for the Indian Ministry of External Affairs tweeted in 2017, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to the Ananda Temple in Bagan, Myanmar. The more narrowly-defined context of the visit was that the temple had been restored thanks to the assistance of the Indian government. The wider context, however, is a history of centuries of cultural influence from Indian civilizations in Southeast Asia. In the late Middle Ages, not just Myanmar, but most of Southeast Asia had very active relations with South Asian states, a process that included many aspects: from flourishing trade to strong religious connections. Buddhism and Hinduism flowed from India to the region, carried by priests and monks, becoming an important part of elite and popular culture, merging with local customs, and leading to the construction of many religious structures: temples, stupas, pagodas. A part of that mammoth (and only partially lost) heritag

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