“…Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A comparison of recent megalith building traditions in Sumba (Indonesia) and Nagaland (India) Maria Wunderlich ; PART IV: MEGALITHS FROM INDIA AND SOUTHEASTERN ASIA ; Introduction Rabindra Kumar Mohanty, Johannes Müller ; Chapter 18 : Megalithic cultures in Southern Asia Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 19 : Megalithic architectures in India Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 20 : Northeast Indian megaliths: monuments and social structures Tiatoshi Jamir, Johannes Müller ; Chapter 21 : Megalithic monuments of Jharkhand: archaeology and ethnography Himanshu Shekhar, Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 22 : The stone jars of Southeast Asia and Northeast India: problems and prospects Tilok Thakuria ; Chapter 23 : The dolmens of Karachi, Sindh (Pakistan) Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro ; Chapter 24 : Megaliths in Vidarbha region (India) Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Mahurjhari Megalithic Site (India) Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Bhagimohari Megalithic Site (India) Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 25 : Distributions and disparities in the megalithic burials of Vidarbha (India): a scrutiny Virag Sontakke ; Chapter 26 : Social organisation of the megalithic people in Vidarbha, Maharashtra (India) Shantanu Vaidya, Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 27 : Situating megalithic monuments in Tamil Nadu: content and context K. RaJan ; PART V: MEGALITHS FROM CENTRAL AND EAST ASIA ; Introduction Laurent Nespoulous, Anke Hein ; Chapter 28 : Monuments in the mountains: the megalithic graves of western China Anke Hein ; Chapter 29 : Prehistoric cairns and dolmens in Manchuria (China) Kazuo Miyamoto ; Chapter 30 : Dolmens and societies in the Korean Peninsula Daisuke Nakamura ; Chapter 31 : Dolmens of the Korean Peninsula: Conservation and utilization in Hoseo (South Korea) Joon-ho Son ; Chapter 32 : The development of stone art culture in ancient Korea Takafumi Yamamoto ; Chapter 33 : From megalithic contexts in the Japanese archipelago, to megalithism as a context: Reflections for consideration, from the first sedentary societies to the first State societies Laurent Nespoulous ; Chapter 34 : Prehistoric and protohistoric megaliths of the Japanese archipelago Yoshio Kikuchi ; Chapter 35 : Bronze Age and Iron Age decorated megaliths and funerary complexes in Mongolia and Southern Siberia Jérôme Magail, Yuri Esin, Jamiyan-Ombo Gantulga, Fabrice Monna, Tanguy Rolland, Anne-Caroline Allard ; Digital 3D documentation of the Tamchinsky deer stone Vladislav Kazakov, Vasily Kovalev, Kair Zhumadilov, Lyudmila Lbova, Aleksandr Simukhin ; Chapter 36 : Megalithic traditions in the Early Bronze Age of the Mongolian Altaï: the Chemurchek (Qie'muerqieke) cultural phenomenon Alexey Kovalev ; PART VI: MEGALITHS FROM CAUCASUS TO THE ARABIC PENINSULA ; Introduction Tara Steimer-Herbet, Viktor Trifonov ; Chapter 37 : In the shadow of monoliths. …”