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082			_a387.1 _bKEL
100			_aKeller, Sara Ed. _992118
245			_aPort towns of Gujarat
260			_aDelhi _bPrimus Books _c2015
300			_axxvii,332p.
505			_aContents Foreword ix HASMUKH SHAH Introduction I xiii MICHAEL PEARSON Introduction II xxiii SARA KELLER SECTION 1: FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES 1. Climate Change and Gujarat Ports YOGINDER K. ALAGH 3 2. Positioning Gujarat as a Medieval Mercantile Centre: Contours and Context 9 LOTIKA VARADARAJAN 3. Translocations of Medieval Ports in the Northern Indian Ocean and their Impact on Gujarat's Maritime Trade in Beads PAUL LUNDE and JENNIFER CRAIG 19 4. Surat City, its Decline and the Indian Ocean, 1730-1940 31 DOUGLAS E. HAYNES 5. Reflections on the Port City of Surat as a Case Study 43 MICHAEL PEARSON 6. Looking for a Safe Haven: English Merchants and the Port of Ghogha vis-a-vis Surat during the Seventeenth Century 57 NISHAT MANZAR 7. Touched by Winds of Many Seas: The Port Town of Lakhpat 73 MARIAM DOSSAL 8. Mundra: A Tale of a Walled Port Town 91 CHHAYA GOSWAMI 9. Mandvi: A Port Looking Both Ways 109 EDWARD SIMPSON SECTION 2: COMMUNITIES AND SOCIO-CULTURAL IDENTITIES 10. Genesis and Growth ofKhambhat as a Port Town, c.600 to c.1600 CE 123 MAKRAND MEHTA 11. Parsis and the Trading World of Bharuch: Twelfth-Nineteenth Centuries 139 MEHER MISTRY 12. Port Towns of Gujarat: Travellers' Accounts of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 151 RADHIKA SESHAN 13. Piracy and the Northward Coast: Problems of Definition 163 LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN SECTION 3: ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN STRUCTURES 14. Coastal Sites: Possible Port Towns ofHarappan Time in Gujarat 183 Y.S . RAWAT 15. Bharuch, the City-Fortress 213 SARA KELLER 16. Ports of Gujarat Far and Near-Cultural Continuum: A Study in Urban Morphology, c.1500-c. l 750 231 ADHYA BHARTI SAXENA 17. Diu as an Interface of East and West: Comparative Urban History in 'Non-western' Stories 259 NUNO GRANCHO 18. Surat in the Seventeenth Century: A Pre-modern Urban Phenomenon 273 RUBYMALONI 19. Circulation, Memory, Landscape: Kachchhi Bhatias in Mundra and Bhadreshwar 285 HIDEAKI SUZUKI SECTION 4: THE SEA AND PAINTINGS 20. Ports and Fine Arts: The Painter and the Sea 305 B.N. GOSWAMY Notes on Editors and Contributors 321 Index 327
700			_aPearson, Michael Ed. _992119
890			_aIndia
891			_aGeneral
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650			_aEngineering _aShipping _aIndia--Gujarat _aPort cities