Talk:George Cœdès

Indianized kingdom
Charles F. Keyes, prof. of anthropology, University of Washington and director of the Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asia Studies has this to say in The golden peninsula : culture and adaptation in mainland Southeast Asia, (Honolulu: SHAPS Library of Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i Press, 1995), ISBN 0-8248-1696-x, Chap. 2 footnote 1, p. 106: The foremost authority on early Southeast Asian history, Professor George Coedès, first used the term hindouisé for those societies that borrowed elements from India. However, most authorities writing in English have preferred the term "Indianization" to avoid the misleading impression that only Hinduism was diffused from India to Southeast Asia. For a recent excellent study of "Indianization" and the characteristics of "Indianized" civilization, see Paul Wheatley, "Satyānrta in Suvarṇadvīpa: From Reciprocity to Redistribution in Ancient Southeast Asia," in Ancient Civilization and Trade, ed. by Jeremy Sabloff and C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (Albuquerque: University of New Mexicon Press, (1975), pp. 227-83. Lee 18:09, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Indonesians never heard of own kingdoms?
Nonsense. I am removing this nonsensical comment. The Inscription markers in Lampung containing the text detailing Sriwijaya founding kingdom were shown to Coedes by Indonesian native guides. Furthermore, the British and Dutch knew of its partner marker in Northern Thailand. In his speech made to the Committee for the Investigation of Indonesian Independence on the extent of the territory to be covered by an independent Indonesia, Yamin declared: "Sriwijaya was the first Indonesian State, Majapahit the second, and the Indonesia of 1945 - the third Indonesian State - was the natural inheritor of the boundaries of Majapahit:... In 1894, Mr Chairman, 50 years ago, the Dutch forces carried on their politics of imperialism by burning the royal palace of Cakranegara on the island of Lombok. The people were murdered, the palace was burnt, and the gold was seized. Amongst the loot was an ancient book written in Old Javanese, dating from the year 1365, written by the poet Prapanca during the reign of King Hayam Wuruk under the patronage of the Vice Regent Gajah Madah, a year before (sic) this great statesman died (1364). Source: [] Thus, demonstrably Indonesian knowledge of Sriwijaya'' was known well before 1894 and thus well before Coedes.Notonegoro (talk) 10:18, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Add works about Eastern zero origen
In 1931 Georges Cœdès published an article “A propos de l’origine des chiffres arabes” (at Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies) where he provided enough evidence to firmly prove once and for all that the number zero was in fact an Eastern invention. --Krauss (talk) 19:44, 8 January 2016 (UTC)