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This book is a collection of essays by several contributors of international repute on the general topic of the interrelationship between India, Arabia and the Eastern Mediterranean. Four papers refer to what can be called “Graeco-Indiaâ€, i.e. the relations between the Greek world itself and India, and the vision the Greeks had of India or borrowed from her, from the early classical period to the late Roman times, mainly seen from the literary sources. A ...
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the International Seminar on 'Techno-archaeological Perspectives of Seafaring in the Indian Ocean' covering the period from the fourth century B.C. to the fifteenth century A.D. The two broad themes covered include archaeological evidence of maritime links, and technological studies of watercraft involved in trade and communication. This inter-disciplinary dialogue provides new insights on early seafaring in the ...