This book is unique in the sense that the author in this work has traced the maritime trade-links of the Kalingas, a people of Southeastern India, from the prehistoric times, by diligently following a study-design based on the place-names of the land. With the assumption that names of some places indicate the origin of immigrants who had come to this country for maritime trade in the past, the author has screened more than fifty thousand place-names of Orissa, ...
