Both geographically and culturally Burma is a projection of the Indian continent, and formed a part of Indo China and Ancient Campa, Kamboj and Siam Laos. Attention of scholars as well as of laymen has been drawn to the subject of Indian colonial enterprise in the past in those countries as well as in the island colonies of Java and Sumatra, Bali and Barneo where important archaeological discoveries have been made during the last twenty five years by French and Dutch scholars.