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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Money is central to the functioning of economies, yet for the pre-modern period, our knowledge of monetary systems is still evolving. Until recently, historians of the medieval world have conflated the use of coins with a high degree of monetization. States without coinage were considered under-monetized. It is becoming more evident, however, that some medieval states used money in complex ways without using coinage. Moneys of account supplanted coins wholly or in part. But there is an imbalance of evidence: coins survive physically, while intangible forms of money leave little trace. This has skewed our understanding. Since coin usage has been well studied in the past, these essays flesh out our consideration of societies that used money but struck no coins. Absence or shortage of coining metals was not the causative factor: some of these societies had access to metal supplies but still remained coinless. Was this a strategic choice? Does it reflect the unique system of gover­nance that developed in each kingdom? It is surely time to unravel this puzzle. This book examines money use in the Bay of Bengal world, using the case of medieval Bengal as a fulcrum. Situated between mountains and the sea, this region had simultaneous access to both overland and maritime trade routes. How did such cashless economies function internally, within their regions and in the broader Indian Ocean context? This volume brings together the thoughts of a range of upcoming scholars (and a sprinkling of their elders), on these and related issues.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Cross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean Realm examines the history of the Bay of Bengal and beyond, as initially documented in archaeological recoveries from AD 100 to AD 900 and subsequently the variety of regional historical evidence that demonstrates India's eastern Indian Ocean maritime and northern overland connections to the nineteenth century. In sum, the book highlights the importance and variety of consequence in east-coast India's linkage with the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal and the extended eastern Indian Ocean, especially India's eastern maritime and overland networking with South-East Asia and China. In the eighth century post-Gupta era the Buddhist religious centre at Nalanda in north-west Bengal assumed a major role as the destination of Indian and international Buddhist pilgrims who arrived by sea and land to study at Nalanda, and returned to promote Buddhist and Hindu religious and cultural exchanges in wider India and Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and China through the fifteenth century. The book details India's long-term historical relationships with the legendary Sumatra-based Srivijaya Thalassocracy and its successors in the Straits of Melaka region, sequential Vietnam coastline-based polities c.6001800s, and the Andaman Islands and Tibet, as populations in northern and eastern Asia selectively localized South Asian culture.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Contents: Part- I: Thinking About Water. 1. The land yields to the sea: The possibilities of ocean history/Ryan Tucker Jones. 2. Water and history: Some skeptical notes/Michael N. Pearson. Part- II: The Coast and the Interior: Upstream/Downstream Linkages. 3. A littoral space: making a case for the Southern Deltaic Region of Bengal/Shatarupa Bhattacharyya. 4. Water, water bodies and waterscapes in early medieval South-Eastern Bengal and Assam: a view from epigraphs/Suchandra Ghosh. Part- III: Landscape, Perception, Mores. 5. Riverine waterscape and cultural landscape in Bengali folklore and literature/Sumanta Banerjee. 6. The River: yearings and warnings/Rimli Sengupta and Soumya chakravarti. 7. 'Oh My River with deep Water, I Am Floating on Your Water, Ever Since my Birth': Non-Western perspectives on Reconfigurations of the Embodiments of water and Landscape with Special Reference to Contemporary Archaeological Discourses/Swadhin Sen and Wahid Palash. Part- IV: Water and History. 8. Imaging and managing water in Peninsular India/Radhika Seshan. Part- V: Water and People. 9. Bonbibi and Kali in Rival Riverine Chronicles from the Sundarbans/Annu Jalais. 10. Stone Tidal Weirs Rising From the Ruins: Cultural Scenes from the Seascapes of the Pacific Islands/Cynthia Neri Zayas. Part- VI: Water as Archive. 11. Ptolemaic perspectives: Rivers, Lake and Seas in Asia/Rila Mukherjee. Living with Water: Peoples, Lives and Livelihoods in Asia and Beyond examines the relation between water and human history through the prism of archaeology, ethnography, history, maritime anthropology, literature, sociology and musicology. Moving away from traditional themes of maritime history such as oceanic trade, migration, slavery, piracy, shipping and port-to-port linkages-and from the generic themes of maritime contacts and market exchanges, of cultural contacts and technology transfers, and of collaboration versus military conflict-the volume focusses instead on human-water interaction in history. We present different types of archives facilitating a history of water with the aim of widening the scope of water histories. Water histories have the potential of bringing remote, marginal histories to the centre of historical research. As Harlaftis (2010) and Grafe (2011) have noted, such histories provide a tool for linking the local and the regional with the global, and also provide the possibility of comparing the various scales or levels of water's interaction and intervention with peoples' lives. The spatial extent of the volume is Russia, Bangladesh, India (Assam, Bengal, the Tamil country) and the Philippines.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Vanguards of Globalization: Port-Cities from the Classical to the Modern looks at the historical evolution of port-cities from emporion to gateway and interrogates their nature over time. This volume studies specific port-cities such as Barbarikon, Chaul, Porto Novo, Madras, Nagasaki, and Sitangkai and more generally the ports around the Erythraean Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, Portuguese, Andhra, Bengal and Vietnamese coasts. In doing so, the contributors celebrate the hybridity and cosmopolitanism that port-cities offer and discuss the wider implications of cross-cultural competition, port-hinterland dynamics as well as themes, problems and textual evidence about port-cities and how they link to ports today.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. The history of a place, no matter how small, cannot be understood without appreciating the connections - visible or invisible; random or methodical; haphazard or systematic - it forges with other places across time and space. Once these connections become consistent and durable, they transform into connectivities, and Rethinking Connectivity: Region, Place and Space in Asia urges us to discern not just connections but also connectivities. Starting with cases of highly visible and structured/networked connectivities from an overland route spanning Central Asia and a coastal polity on the far side of the Indian Ocean, the book showcases some of the remarkable links forged in Asian history. It gives three examples of ideologies and individuals negotiating connections already established in colonial Bengal, and, from these realms of the visible, moves to the more intangible domain of visual strategies to discern connectivities. Cultural icons celebrating the nation, and maps displaying increasingly novel conceptions of space and time, reinforce the idea of an Asia that is connected, braided and also contested from early times to the present.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. The dynamics of the maritime world has held the fascination of researchers and scholars of history for long. Viewing the waterscapes as conduits of much economic and cultural sharing between peoples and lands, the focus of Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 is on the oceans and seas the Indian, the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea and economic, military and cultural transmissions within and across them.The book shows how conventional arguments in history writing about the rise of theWest, the hegemon of the State and the might of overseas colonial empires can beoverturned by emphasizing on dynamic, collaborative, nonlinear networks as opposed toformal networks based on hierarchy. Such networks signal a completely different pictureabout global interactions in the period 1400-1800, emphasizing the centrality of peoples andcommodities at different times in different parts of the world. More importantly, the bookchallenges chronological readings and urges us to think spatially instead.With contributions from Indian, American, French and Iberian scholars, Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 tells us what happens when the sea of history meets the sea of network analysis.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. Due to the frontierization of nation-states, maritime historians have tended to ignore the northern Bay of Bengal. Yet, this marginal region, now dispersed over the four nation-states of India, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh, was not marginal in the past. Until recently, however, historians have concentrated largely on the 'big four': the Gujarat, Malabar, Coromandel and western Bengal coasts. Extreme eastern South Asia Bengal and the lands to its north-east fanning into Burma and China, or modern India's north-east and beyond is the focus of Pelagic Passageways. This regional unit, including diverse topographic features: plains, forests, estuaries, deltas, rivers, mountains, lakes, plateaus and remote passes, oscillates between unity and fragmentation, between centrality and marginality in the larger space of the Bay of Bengal. To attempt a history of this space is indeed challenging. There is not one, but two deltas here: the western delta, corresponding to present West Bengal in India and centred now on Kolkata, and the south-eastern delta, in present Bangladesh, centred on Dhaka, and running into Arakan. Not merely in terms of location, but on a historical axis too, the two deltas are vastly different as they have followed disparate trajectories, dictated in part by their geographies. Pelagic Passageways, therefore, questions the conventional fault line, located on the south-eastern Bengal delta, between the historiography of South and South-East Asia. Concentrating on commodity and currency flows, travel, trade, routes and interactive networks Pelagic Passageways visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bengal as embracing upland landlocked areas Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states not usually seen as part of maritime history. This collection of essays suggests that they too were a part of the social and commercial networks of the Indian Ocean. While these countries literally fell off the map, this volume proposes that we see these areas instead as crossroads, mediating flows between the land-dwelling and aquatic worlds.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Beyond National Frames: South Asian Pasts and the World advocates re-orienting our vision that has so far seen South Asia as a tightly circumscribed space. Envisioning a mobile South Asia flowing beyond its geographical confines, this volume of essays showcases a history transcending present borders of both land and sea resulting in a truly connected transnational history of Asia and the Indian Ocean world. Recommending a shift from the conventional region or nation-centred histories to spaces seen as borderless, the essays in this book re-evaluate known sources, open up fresh ones, raise new questions and attempt to find answers to them. New formulations, novel hypotheses and innovative spatialities are seen in the resultant cross-regional histories. The emphasis in Beyond National Frames is on sources. Sources are central to history. The dual nature of the source - as archive (text and terrain) and also as window (context) - poses a challenge to the scholar. Hence, the need to take stock of the sources we have inherited, to visualize the sources we can access and to reflect on new histories which become possible once they are accessed. This volume, thus, presents a dynamic South Asia as a crossroads of cultural influences and shows innovative ways of using sources to yield fresh perspectives and new data.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction/Rila Mukherjee. 2. Identity and spatiality in Indian Ocean port-of trade c. 1400-1800/Kenneth R. Hall. 2. The nature of maritime trade: evidence from coastal Andhra/K.P. Rao. 3. The port of Sanjan/Sindan in early medieval India: a study of its cosmopolitan Milieu/Suchandra Ghosh and Durbar Sharma. 4. Perceptions of coastal topographies: Malabar and its ports, c. 10th-14th centuries CE/Digvijay Kumar Singh. 5. International maritime based trade in the Thai Realm of Ayutthaya in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries: deer hide trade as an access point for re-evaluation/Ilicia J. Sprey. 6. Accidental ports: the Bengal delta in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries/Rila Mukherjee. 7. Secondary ports as ports-of-call: A study of Rajapur in the seventeenth century/Radhika Seshan. 8. Health concerns, medical substances and exchange networks in early colonial settlements: exploring dimensions of the fledgling urban experience in medical literature (1700s to 1850s)/Nupur Dasgupta. 9. The raging river: establishing a nineteenth century port in Bengal/Shatarupa Bhattacharyya. 10. A tale of two ports: changing fortunes of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas in Qajar Persia/Kingshuk Chatterjee. 11. A patch of the orient in Asutralia: Broome on the Margin of the Indo-Pacific, 1883-1939/Joseph Christensen. 12. Identity and spatiality of extended Indian ocean ports of trade/Kenneth R. Hall. Index. This collective places ports-of trade across the Indian ocean within the wider framework of negotiations exchanges and circulations. It interrogates the port-of trade experience along the ocean from Bandar Abbas, Persia to Broome, Western Asutralia. With a temporal span ranging from the Early historic period of late capitalism, it privilieges ports-of trade from 1400 CE and their negotiations with capitalism and colonialism. Arguing for a different urban history of ports, the volume asks whether the port-of trade urban experience, and its spatiality and identity, was different from its inland counterparts.