Fw: H-ASIA: Cryptography in South and East Asia (500-1000 C.E.) response

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Subject: H-ASIA: Cryptography in South and East Asia (500-1000 C.E.)
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> H-ASIA
> September 6, 2011
>
> Response to query re: sources on cryptography in South and East Asia
> (500-1000 C.E.)
> ************************************************************************
> From: chandar sundaram <chandsund@gmail.com>
>
>
> With reference to the query posted this morning by Cody Bahir regarding
> uses of cryptography in military campaigns or political institutions in
> India and China:
>
> If by Cryptography the writer means the encoding and decoding of secret
> diplomatic and military messages, I would suggest looking at the works of
> Sun Tzu and Kautilya, and contacting Professor Upinder Singh, who teaches
> in the history Department of Delhi University, and Professor David Graff,
> who is at Kansas State University.
>
> In any case their co-ordinates are .available through google.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chandar
>
> --
> Chandar S. Sundaram, Ph.D.,
> War and Society Historian
> Victoria BC Canada
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Ed. note: The contacts and books of these two noted scholars are:
>
> Upinder Singh is Professor of History at Delhi University:
> <upinders@gmail.com>,
>
> She has published:
>
> _Ancient India: New Research_ (Co-edited with Nayanjot Lahiri),
> (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009)
>
> _A History of Ancient and Early medieval India: from the stone
> age to the twelfth century_
> (New Delhi: Pearson Longman. 2008)
>
> _Ancient Delhi_ [2nd edition]
> (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006)
>
> _Delhi: ancient history_,
> (New Delhi: Social Science Press. 2006)
>
> _The Discovery of Ancient India: early archaeologists and the
> beginnings of archaeology,
> (New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2004)
>
> _Ancient Delhi_
> (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999)
>
> _Kings, Brahmanas, and Temples in Orissa: an epigraphic study (AD
> 300-1147)_
> (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1994)
>
>
> David Graff is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University
> <dgraff@k-state.edu>
>
> Among his publications are:
>
> _Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900_
> (London and New York: Routledge, 2002)
>
> _A Military History of China_ (edited with Robin Higham)
> (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002)
>
> "Narrative Maneuvers: The Representation of Battle in Tang Historical
> Writing," pp. 143-164 in _Military Culture in Imperial China_,
> edited by Nicola Di Cosmo
> (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009),
>
> The K-State History Department site mentions that he is "He is currently
> working on a translation of what remains of Li Jing's Art of War, an early
> Tang military text, and is also writing a book comparing Chinese and
> Byzantine military practice in the seventh century."
> FFC
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