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COASTAL HISTORIES SOCIETY AND ECOLOGY IN PREMODERN INDIA: Edited by Yogesh Sharma;
MARITIME INDIA - Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean: Pius Malekandathil; Both the books pub. by Primus Books, Virat Bhavan, Mukherjee Nagar, Commercial Complex, Delhi-110009. Rs. 695 each.
The two books under review complement each other in establishing the sea trade as an important driver of socioeconomic process in littoral societies that interacted primarily for trade. They highlight the social dynamics behind the changes in the ruling and trade patterns of the coastal region. Michael N. Pearson, the well known historian of the Indian Ocean, has written the foreword for both. Sea trade was known in the South from very early times and the Sangam literature is full of references to the overseas trade and the functioning of ports, with the state acting as a facilitator of trade and as the custodian of goods landing in the harbour. Almost everyone who came from the West was referred to as Yavanas in Sangam and there was cordial relationship between the state and the foreign trader.
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