The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group

This book is a collection of essays of the late Professor Ashin Das Gupta - one of the pioneers of maritime history in India. It is divided into two sections: t

The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group

This volume discusses the various socio-economic and political processes that evolved over centuries in the vast coastal fringes of India and out of the circuit

The spectacular rise in world trade following the great discoveries of the closing years of the fifteenth century had important implications for each of the maj