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That was what was assumed since there were no historical written edicts to support an Indian colonies by subjugation ...except that a chola king sent his troops to ransack all cities in SEA but whether the troops remained is not evident ..but I think it is my ch more than that ,Indians princes actually came and established their empires in SEA ..,here are my reasons ..1 the very word Kelings as a nomenclature for people from India ..I did thought that it was a derogatory term for being brought in chains as slaves...but during my extensive travels in Indonesia it was also the very word keling ...but there were no British rule in those places and neither were Indians ...and what surprised me was it was the very word keling used as a nomenclature by the British in their census ,postcards and stamps too ...surely the word keling as derogatory totally ruled out .,,again the Malay themselves used such references as Kapitan Kling ,Masjid Keling and Jalan Keling ..and the best reference came from the very guy who wrote Sejara Melayu Abdullah Munshi that he was a proud keling ..so what is the origin of this word and why were ancient people proud of being KelingIndians did not colonise South East Asia. They merely projected their cultural influence abroad, just like how to chinks projected their cultural and religious outlook into Japan, or how Buddhism spread into Indo-China.
Indian kingdoms did not send troops or armed settlers into south east asia.
thr answer lies in the map @syed putra provided .,there was a Kingdom called Kalinga ...and this seems to have been the most powerful kingdom connected with SEA ..there are stone edicts found here depicting 1 of their greatest exports via ships ..Elephants ,and without which the greatest monuments like Angkor Watt and Borobodhur can never be built ..in Essence , every elephant now found in SEA could very well have been exported from kalinga empire
now ,there are historical records that Asoka the great fought one of cruelest battle and destroyed this kalinga empire and the kalinga royal princes fled to places afar that was known to them and established their own kingdoms ..Sri Lanka was one and Sri Vijaya is another ...notice the similarity in their names ,....at least Sri Lanka historians acknowledges this as they do have evidences to prove but SEA goes largely forgetting this part of history
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