The Pull Towards the Coast and Other Essays: The Indian Ocean History and the Subcontinent Before 1500 CE
Author
Ranabir Chakravarti
Year
2020
Binding
Hardback
Pages
xiv+326p, bib, ind, 24 cm.
ISBN10, ISBN13
8194786940, 9788194786948
Short Description
This book presents nine essays and two appendices on both, the ‘history of ’ and the ‘history in’ the Indian Ocean prior to c.1500 CE. The book discards the notion of the perceived efficacy of Brahmanical taboos against Indic seafaring and the Eurocentric perspective of ‘the age of discoveries’ in the history of the Indian Ocean.
