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India’s maritime contact with eastern Mediterranean and classical Rome (c. 1st century BCE-3rd century CE) has often been celebrated as ‘Indo-Roman trade’-a prominent theme in Indian historiography. Rajan Gurukkal critically rethinks this exchange relation-he argues that the expression ‘Indo-Roman trade’, when examined in the light of extant source material and theoretical insights, is a misnomer.
Exchange of goods between the ...
It is an excellent collection of Rajan Gurukkal’s essays offering an insightful analysis of early social formations in the present-day South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala: from the earliest times to the early medieval period. Thematically and spatio-temporally interconnected, the essays examine the transformation from agro-pastoral to social formation in the region exploring wide-ranging areas, like economy, technology, social relations, ...