The Indian Ocean: Explorations in History, Commerce and Politics.

Abstract

Introduction - Satish Chandra The Indian Ocean - Charles Verlinden The Ancient Period and the Middle Ages Changing Patterns of Navigation in the Indian Ocean and Their Impact on Pre-Colonial Sri Lanka - R A L H Gunawardana Commodity Structure and the Indian Participation in the Trade of the Southern Seas, - Lotika Varadarajan Circa Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries China and 'Western Ocean' in the Fifteenth Century - Haraprasad Ray The Indian Ocean Network and the Emerging World Economy 1500-1750 - Neils Steensgaard The Indian Ocean, India and Africa - Prithvish Nag Historical and Geographical Perspectives Japan and the Indian Ocean at the Time of the Moghul Empire, with Special Reference to Gujarat - Osamu Kondo The Haven Finding Art in Indian Navigational Traditions and Cartography - B Arunachalam The Incorporation of the Indian Subcontinent into the Capitalist World-Economy - Immanuel Wallerstein Engineering and Empire - F J A Broeze, K I MacPherson and P D Reeves The Making of the Modern Indian Ocean Ports The Indian Ocean in the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries - S Bhattacharya Turning Persian Gulf into a British Lake - G Bondarevsky British Domination in the Indian Ocean in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries