Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

ISBN-13: 9780367529789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 328 str.

Ranabir Chakravarti

Opis

Highlighting diverse types of market places and merchants, this book situates the commercial scenario of early India (up to c. ad 1300) in the overall agrarian material milieu of the subcontinent.
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Spis treści

i. Preface to the Third Editions ii. Preface to the Second Edition 1. Introduction 2. Early Historical India: A Study in its Material Milieu (c. 600 BC-AD 300) 3. Merchants and Other Donors at Ancient Bandhogarh 4. The Putabhedana as a Centre of Trade in Early India 5. Rājaśreşţhī 6. Maritime Trade and Voyages in Ancient Bengal 7. Vangasagara-sambhandariyaka: A Riverine Trade Centre of Early Medieval Bengal 8. Seafaring in the Bengal Coast: The Early Medieval Scenario 9. Trade at Mandapikas in Early Medieval North India 10. The Pentha as a Centre of Trade in the Deccan c. AD 600-1300 11. Nakhuda Nuruddin Firuz at Somanatha: ad 1264 12. Information, Exchange and Administration: Case Studies from Early India 13. An Enchanting Seascape: Through Epigraphic Lens 14. Three Copper Plates of the Sixth Century CE 15. Gujarat's Maritime Trade and Alternative Moneys (c. 550-1300 ce)

O autorze

Ranabir Chakravarti, an eminent expert in the social and economic history of early India, is known for his enduring interests in the Indian Ocean maritime trade during the pre-modern times. A regular contributor to peer-reviewed journals and edited academic volumes in India and abroad, he has authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited the following works: Warfare for Wealth: Early Indian Perspectives (Calcutta, 1986); A Sourcebook of Indian Civilization (Hyderabad, 2000); Trade in Early India (New Delhi, 2001); Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty First Century: A View from the Margins (New York, 2007); Exploring Early India up to c. ad 1300 (New Delhi, 2016); History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives up to c. 1200 ce in two volumes (Dhaka, 2018). He has also written three books in Bangla on early Indian history. Dr. Chakravarti was elected to preside over the section on Ancient Indian History by Indian History Congress in 2011.