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Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society (Hardcover)
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Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society (Hardcover)
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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.
The book questions the stereotypical narrative of early Indian
trade as exchanges in small quantity, exotic, portable luxury items
and strongly argues for the significance of trade in relatively
inexpensive bulk commodities - including agrarian/floral products -
at local and regional levels and also in long distance trade. That
staple items had salience in the sea-borne trade of early India
figures prominently in this book which points out that commercial
exchanges touched the everyday life of a variety of people. A major
feature of this work is the conspicuous thrust on and attention to
the sea-borne commerce in the subcontinent. The history of Indic
seafaring in the Indian Ocean finds a prominent place in this book
pointing out the braided histories of overland and maritime
networks in the subcontinent. In addition to three specific
chapters on the maritime profile of early Bengal, the third edition
of Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society offers two new
chapters (14 and 15) on the commercial scenario of Gujarat, dealing
respectively with an organization of merchants during the early
sixth century ad and with the long-term linkages between
money-circulation and overseas trade in Gujarat c. ad 500-1500). A
new preface to the Third Edition discusses the emerging
historiographical issues in the history of trade in early India.
Rich in the interrogation of a wide variety of primary sources, the
book analyses the changing perspectives on early Indian trade by
taking into account the current literature on the subject.
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