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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Cross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean Realm examines the history of the Bay of Bengal and beyond, as initially documented in archaeological recoveries from AD 100 to AD 900 and subsequently the variety of regional historical evidence that demonstrates India's eastern Indian Ocean maritime and northern overland connections to the nineteenth century. In sum, the book highlights the importance and variety of consequence in east-coast India's linkage with the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal and the extended eastern Indian Ocean, especially India's eastern maritime and overland networking with South-East Asia and China. In the eighth century post-Gupta era the Buddhist religious centre at Nalanda in north-west Bengal assumed a major role as the destination of Indian and international Buddhist pilgrims who arrived by sea and land to study at Nalanda, and returned to promote Buddhist and Hindu religious and cultural exchanges in wider India and Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and China through the fifteenth century. The book details India's long-term historical relationships with the legendary Sumatra-based Srivijaya Thalassocracy and its successors in the Straits of Melaka region, sequential Vietnam coastline-based polities c.6001800s, and the Andaman Islands and Tibet, as populations in northern and eastern Asia selectively localized South Asian culture.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction/Rila Mukherjee. 2. Identity and spatiality in Indian Ocean port-of trade c. 1400-1800/Kenneth R. Hall. 2. The nature of maritime trade: evidence from coastal Andhra/K.P. Rao. 3. The port of Sanjan/Sindan in early medieval India: a study of its cosmopolitan Milieu/Suchandra Ghosh and Durbar Sharma. 4. Perceptions of coastal topographies: Malabar and its ports, c. 10th-14th centuries CE/Digvijay Kumar Singh. 5. International maritime based trade in the Thai Realm of Ayutthaya in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries: deer hide trade as an access point for re-evaluation/Ilicia J. Sprey. 6. Accidental ports: the Bengal delta in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries/Rila Mukherjee. 7. Secondary ports as ports-of-call: A study of Rajapur in the seventeenth century/Radhika Seshan. 8. Health concerns, medical substances and exchange networks in early colonial settlements: exploring dimensions of the fledgling urban experience in medical literature (1700s to 1850s)/Nupur Dasgupta. 9. The raging river: establishing a nineteenth century port in Bengal/Shatarupa Bhattacharyya. 10. A tale of two ports: changing fortunes of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas in Qajar Persia/Kingshuk Chatterjee. 11. A patch of the orient in Asutralia: Broome on the Margin of the Indo-Pacific, 1883-1939/Joseph Christensen. 12. Identity and spatiality of extended Indian ocean ports of trade/Kenneth R. Hall. Index. This collective places ports-of trade across the Indian ocean within the wider framework of negotiations exchanges and circulations. It interrogates the port-of trade experience along the ocean from Bandar Abbas, Persia to Broome, Western Asutralia. With a temporal span ranging from the Early historic period of late capitalism, it privilieges ports-of trade from 1400 CE and their negotiations with capitalism and colonialism. Arguing for a different urban history of ports, the volume asks whether the port-of trade urban experience, and its spatiality and identity, was different from its inland counterparts.