01754 a2200289 4500
231869
231872
20211005123643.0
211005s2021 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
9789390737673
(hbk)
NMML
eng
387.5095414
R1
Shipbuilding, navigation and the South-West silk road :
North Odisha, Bengal and Arakan /
edited by Samuel Berthet.
Delhi :
Primus Books,
2021.
xxxiv, 235 p. ;
25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book looks at circulation and ships in a space that brings together the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayan regions, south-west China, and South-East Asia, connecting those regions to the larger Indian Oceanic trade. This space is organized around the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, where boats and ships play a pivotal role in circulation, trade and wealth. So far, boats and ships of the Northern Bay of Bengal have been rarely studied. Shallow draft vessels, able to navigate the coast, estuaries, and deep rivers are a form of transportation that evades the control of a central and land-based polity. Their understanding is crucial to reassess our idea of roads as well as the history of technology and trade in a space central to circulation.
Maritime Silk Road.
Marine transportation
South-West Silk road.
Marine transportation
North Odisha.
Marine transportation
Bengal.
Marine transportation
Arakan.
Trade routes.
Sea-borne trade.
Berthet, Samuel.
editor
189694
ddc
BK
0
0
ddc
0
387_509541400000000_R1
0
578514
NMML
NMML
2021-10-01
56
746.25
1
387.5095414 R1
189694
2021-10-27
2021-10-18
995.00
BK