George Coedès

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George Coedès (1886-1969)was a 20th century scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history. He became director of the National Library of Thailand in 1918, and in 1929 became director of L'Ecole francaise d'Extreme Orient, where he remained until 1946. Thereafter he lived in Paris until he died in 1969. He wrote two seminal texts in the field, The Indianized States of Southeast Asia (1968, 1975) and The Making of South East Asia (1966), as well as innumerable articles, in which he deveoped the concept of the Indianized kingdom. However, the modern consensus is that the Indianization was less complete than Coedès had believed, with many indigenous practices surviving underneath the Indian surface.

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• Higham, Charles (2001). The Civilization of Angkor. Phoenix. ISBN 1842125842.
• National Library of Australia. Asia's French Connection : George Coedes and the Coedes Collection