... Chulalongkorn of Siam in 1897. This involved the “ritual undressing” of the tooth relic by monastic hierarchs—the gradual removal of its jewels and nested reliquaries until the bared tooth itself could be seen. When this was done, Chulalongkorn asked to be able to handle the tooth, but, unexpectedly...

... Śākyamuni Buddha Siam Buddha images from Takakusu Junjirō World Congress of Orientalists Aoki Bunkyō League of Nations Manchuria Manchukuo Nagoya Ōiwa Isao Teramoto Enga textile trade Tibet British spies in trade Birla Seth Jugal Kishore Chatterjee Sri Chandra Hayashi Tadasu Hindus Inagaki...

... of the Voyage de Siam (1686), a book that was edited by Guy Tachard and harnessed the traditional apologetic functions of Jesuit mission history and the activities of Parisian academicians to the expressive possibilities of the travelogue. In following the passage of the Voyage de Siam...

...Of the various audiences that the Voyage de Siam was meant to please, the book's royal dedicatee, at least, seems to have been well satisfied with its account of his newly commissioned mathématiciens du roi. Within a few months of its publication, a second cohort...

...Chapter five concludes by analyzing the Asian roots of the Glorious and Newtonian Revolutions in politics and science, what many have seen as ‘the birth of the modern.’ A crisis in the East India Company trade, brought on in part by attempts by Siam, Russia and the Mughals to consolidate their own...