Pull towards the coast and other essays : the Indian Ocean history and the subcontinent before 1500 CE
Chakravarti, Ranabir
Pull towards the coast and other essays : the Indian Ocean history and the subcontinent before 1500 CE - Delhi Primus Books 2021 - xiv,326p.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
1. Introduction ยท 1
2. Knowing the Sea: Thalassographies to Thalassology of the Indian Ocean (up to c.1500 cE) 58
3. The Coast vis-a-vis the Subcontinent:
Interlocking with Distinctiveness 75
4. Coasts and Interiors of India: Early Modern
Indo-Dutch Cross-Cultural Exchanges 93
5. On Board the Hermapollon: Transporting Gangetic
Nard from Muziris 116
6. Examining the Hinterland and Foreland of the Port
of Muziris in the Wider Perspective of the
Subcontinent's Long-Distance Networks 133
7. Vibrant Thalassographies of the Indian Ocean:
Beyond Nation-States 165
8. The Pull Towards the Coast: Politics and Polity in India
(c.600-1300 CE) 183
9. Looking for a Maritime City: Somanatha in the
Thirteenth Century CE 222
10. The Indian Ocean Scenario in the Fourteenth
Century Latin Crusade Tract: Possibilities of a
. World Historical Approach 246
Appendix 1 267
Appendix Il 277
Bibliography 285
Index 311
9788194786948
Buildings--Energy consumption
Merchant marine
Navigation
623.89225 / CHA
Pull towards the coast and other essays : the Indian Ocean history and the subcontinent before 1500 CE - Delhi Primus Books 2021 - xiv,326p.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
1. Introduction ยท 1
2. Knowing the Sea: Thalassographies to Thalassology of the Indian Ocean (up to c.1500 cE) 58
3. The Coast vis-a-vis the Subcontinent:
Interlocking with Distinctiveness 75
4. Coasts and Interiors of India: Early Modern
Indo-Dutch Cross-Cultural Exchanges 93
5. On Board the Hermapollon: Transporting Gangetic
Nard from Muziris 116
6. Examining the Hinterland and Foreland of the Port
of Muziris in the Wider Perspective of the
Subcontinent's Long-Distance Networks 133
7. Vibrant Thalassographies of the Indian Ocean:
Beyond Nation-States 165
8. The Pull Towards the Coast: Politics and Polity in India
(c.600-1300 CE) 183
9. Looking for a Maritime City: Somanatha in the
Thirteenth Century CE 222
10. The Indian Ocean Scenario in the Fourteenth
Century Latin Crusade Tract: Possibilities of a
. World Historical Approach 246
Appendix 1 267
Appendix Il 277
Bibliography 285
Index 311
9788194786948
Buildings--Energy consumption
Merchant marine
Navigation
623.89225 / CHA