TY  - GEN
AU  - Chakravarti, Ranabir 
TI  - Pull towards the coast and other essays : the Indian Ocean history and the subcontinent before 1500 CE
SN  - 9788194786948
U1  - 623.89225 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Primus Books
KW  - Buildings--Energy consumption
KW  - Merchant marine
KW  - Navigation
N1  - Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
1. Introduction · 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

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