As Indian Council for Cultural Relations Visiting Scholar of Asian Civilization at Sisavangvong University, Vientiane, Laos (1970-72), Research Professor at Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi (1988-90), Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2003-2006), and as National Professor of Epigraphy, Ministry of Culture, Government of India(2012-2013), Sahai has immensely contributed to the better understanding of India's time-tested cultural relations with Southeast Asia. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded A.S. Altekar Gold Medal (1962), Pravasi Bharatiya Gold Medal and Padma Shri (2012), and nominated member, Indian Council for Historical Research by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Currently, Professor Sahai is based in Siem Reap (Angkor) as an expert-historian to APSARA National Authority and Preah Vihear National Authority under the auspices of the Royal Government of Cambodia.
After a hiatus of scholarly activities during the Khmer Rouge period, in 1990s Michel Tranet once again documented the site and shared with me his intimate knowledge of the region when I visited the site after 2004. In the last decade of twentieth century, Japanese scholars from Waseda University and the Khmer scholars from the Ministry of Culture, Government of Cambodia, remained active at the site. In 2011, Bruno Bruguier and Juliette Lacroix presented their extensive survey of the site, linking Sambor Prei Kuk with the wider zone of the Tonle Sap Lake. The Japanese language thesis of Ichita Shimoda on Ishanapura and his subsequent English language study in collaboration with Sae Shimamoto, published in 2012 offers the results of their extensive explorations and limited excavations.
Going through the vast scientific literature, it is apparent that the number of sites known has gradually grown, comprehensive and accurate descriptions of the temples have been offered. But a large number of haunting questions have not attracted so far the scholarly attention. Keeping these questions in mind, the monograph has been presented in as many as 34 sections, dissecting each issue in its minutest detail. In fact, giving special attention to each question in a small section appears more effective than clubbing together man questions into one lengthy chapter.
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