Archaeological evidence supports the interpretation that Southeast Asia su tained indigenous traditions of manufacturing and political developments u the fourth century CE the recovery of Indian items of this early period in Southeast Asian contexts should be regarded as evidence of contact but not trade" or cultural expansion in any meaningful sense. After the fourth century many of the areas along the eastern Indian Ocean sustained the develop- ment of complex political entities that adopted Indian political terms and reli- gious motifs. These Indian traditions were attractive because they had been sociopolitical model by groups in the subcontinent fashioned into a coherent greater invigoration of the Gupta polity resulted in the consolidation of a larger political territory, promoted trade more aggressively, and may have driven out Buddhist practices from some parts of the subcontinent to new areas around the eastern Indian Ocean littoral. Thus, within the phenomenon of "Indianization" there were developments not only on the part of the recipients but on the part of the "senders" as well