India in the Indian Ocean world : from the earliest times to 1800 CE / / Rila Mukherjee

• Autore: Mukherjee Rila
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvi, 410 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps
• Disciplina: 050
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology
• Soggetto geografico: Indian Ocean Region History; India History; India Relations
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- A Short Note on Maritime Circulations -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- References -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Maps, Graphics and Images -- 1 Introduction: Oceanic Worlds -- 1.1 The Significance of the Maritime Domain -- 1.2 The Importance of Maritime History -- 1.3 Maritime History: What Exactly is it? -- 1.4 Seeing the Mediterranean Sea -- 1.5 The Black Sea: A Mare Incognita from India's Perspective? -- 1.6 The Still-Hegemonic Atlantic Model -- 1.7 The Emerging Pacific Model -- 1.8 Maritime Approaches: Uses, Utility and Problems -- 1.9 Circulations in an Oceanic World -- 1.10 Goods, Objects, Gifts, Commodities -- 1.11 Distinct Merchant Groups -- References -- 2 Seeing the Indian Ocean -- 2.1 The Indian Ocean World -- 2.1.1 The Ocean as a Composite Unit -- 2.1.2 Critiques -- 2.1.3 The 'Colonial' Indian Ocean -- 2.1.4 The Post-colonial Indian Ocean World -- 2.2 The Oman and Persian Gulf Regions, the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa -- 2.3 Melaka Straits and the Port-City of Melaka -- 2.4 South China Sea -- 2.5 Western and Eastern Indian Oceans -- 2.6 Envisioning the Ocean -- 2.7 Indian Ocean as Method -- 2.7.1 Periodisation in the Ocean -- 2.7.2 Scale in the Ocean -- 2.8 Unity in the Ocean? -- 2.9 Disintegration on Land? -- References -- 3 India's Central Indian Ocean and Sri Lanka -- 3.1 The Sea of Ceylon -- 3.2 Island Lanka and Its International Networks -- 3.3 Lanka, Persia, Byzantium -- 3.4 The Central Indian Ocean's Age of Commerce -- 3.5 Shipping Lanes, Routes and Ports in the Bay of Bengal -- 3.6 Religious Change in the Bay -- 3.7 The Bay Shift Toward China -- 3.8 Lanka's Decline -- 3.9 Into Modern Sri Lanka -- References -- 4 India in the Bay of Bengal and the Eastern Indian Ocean -- 4.1 Going East: The Bay of Bengal -- 4.2 The Two Bays of Bengal -- 4.2.1 Trade in the North-Central Bay of Bengal. ; 4.2.2 The Southern Bay: Maritime Revenues, Ports and Trade -- 4.2.3 Comparing the Two Bays -- 4.3 The Southern Bay of Bengal -- 4.3.1 Expanding Economies and Increased Warfare in the Southern Bay World -- 4.3.2 New Religious Landscapes in the Southern Bay -- 4.3.3 An 'Extended' Southern Bay of Bengal -- 4.4 Characteristics of the Northern Bay of Bengal World -- 4.4.1 Money in the Northern Bay of Bengal -- 4.4.2 Religion in the Northern Bay of Bengal -- 4.4.3 Political and Economic Shifts in the Northern Bay World -- 4.5 Religionscapes -- References -- 5 India's Arabian Sea World -- 5.1 India in the Western Indian Ocean -- 5.2 West Coast of India -- 5.2.1 Indus Delta -- 5.2.2 Gujarat -- 5.2.3 Deccan -- 5.3 Into the Arabian Sea -- 5.4 Into Rome -- 5.5 Foreign Communities in the Indian Ocean -- 5.6 Multiple Seas -- References -- 6 The World of Africa -- 6.1 Biological Circulations -- 6.2 Early Indus Delta-East Africa Trade -- 6.3 Gulf of Aden-Arabian Sea -- 6.3.1 Socotra -- 6.3.2 Aden -- 6.3.3 Axum and Adulis -- 6.4 Not-So Minor Red Sea and South Arabia Ports -- 6.5 The Egypt-India Trade -- 6.6 From Elite Connections to a Cotton-for-Slaves Trade -- References -- 7 Networked Port-Cites and Polities in India -- 7.1 The Integrated Commercial World of the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean -- 7.2 Money Use: A Gradual Shift from Gold to Silver? -- 7.3 West Coast of India -- 7.4 Matching Markets and Complementary Ports -- 7.5 West-Coast India's Maritime Partners -- 7.6 The Persian Gulf's Indian Merchant Communities -- 7.7 Early Modern West-Coast Ports -- 7.8 Early Modern Southwest-Coast Ports -- 7.9 East-Coast India -- 7.10 East-Coast India's Overseas Merchant Communities -- 7.11 A Comparative Analysis of Ports of West and East Coast of India -- 7.12 Port Networks Once Again -- References. ; 8 India's Oceanic Circulations: Textiles, Crops, Animals, Disease and More -- 8.1 Cotton -- 8.2 A Luxury Trade -- 8.3 New Networks -- 8.4 Silver -- 8.5 Other Circulations -- 8.6 Southernisation -- 8.7 Patterns of Maritime and Overland Trade -- 8.8 Into a New World -- References -- 9 Travelling in a World of Marvels -- 9.1 Culturescapes -- 9.2 Maritime Cultural Landscapes -- 9.3 Identity and the Littoral -- 9.4 Outsiders on the Coast -- 9.5 The View from the West: A Confusion of Indias in the Ancient World -- 9.6 Knowledge Domains -- 9.6.1 The Rim as Boundary for Inland Polities -- 9.6.2 An Exotic Rim for Outsiders -- 9.7 The Three Indias of Medieval Europe -- 9.8 Geographic and Cartographic Constructs of the Indian Ocean -- 9.9 Visionary Landscapes -- References -- 10 From Deserts and Mountains to the Seas: The Central Asian World of the Indian Ocean -- 10.1 The Cosmopolitan World of Early Geographers -- 10.2 Connecting Desert Mountains to the Asian Seas -- 10.2.1 The Parthians -- 10.2.2 Sogdians -- 10.2.3 The System Collapses -- 10.3 Persians and Arabs in China -- 10.4 Connecting the Interior to the Seas in the Medieval Indian Ocean World -- 10.5 Eurasia, India, China -- 10.6 An Overview of Nomadic Empires -- References -- 11 Contrasting Indian and Chinese Visions of the Sea -- 11.1 Indian Seascapes -- 11.2 From Ocean-River to the World Ocean-Sea -- 11.3 Vedic Seascapes and the Ocean-Sea -- 11.4 A Maritime Overlordship -- 11.5 Polities and Coastal Seas -- 11.6 Familiar Spaces -- 11.7 The Song Shift -- 11.8 New Visions of Territoriality -- 11.9 Perspectives on China's Maritime Consciousness -- 11.9.1 The Place of the Sea in China's History -- 11.9.2 The Song Breakthrough -- 11.9.3 Into the Yuan-Ming and Ming-Qing Periods -- 11.9.4 A Fear of the Sea in Qing China -- 11.10 Maritime Geographies and the State -- 11.11 Concluding Remarks -- References. ; 12 Locating Change in the Indian Ocean World -- 12.1 Changes -- 12.2 Continuities -- 12.3 Comparisons -- 12.3.1 Similarities: Circuits and Pathways -- 12.3.2 Impact of Climate Change: Fifteenth and Seventeenth-Century Indian Ocean Realms -- 12.4 Differences -- 12.5 The Eastern Indian Ocean's Shift Towards China -- References -- 13 Conclusion -- 13.1 Culture, Religion, Diversity -- 13.1.1 Issues in Sogdian Identity and Religious Affiliation -- 13.1.2 Diversity in Islam -- 13.2 Rights, Ethics and Law -- 13.3 Climate, Disease and Disruptions -- 13.4 Mobility and Cross-Cultural Encounters -- 13.5 Maritime History as World History -- 13.6 Geographies of the Sea -- 13.6.1 Social Geographies -- 13.6.2 Political Geographies -- 13.6.3 Maritime Territorialities -- 13.6.4 Shifts, Transitions and Revolutions at Sea -- 13.7 Identities, Identification, Methodology -- 13.7.1 Place Names -- 13.7.2 Commodities -- 13.7.3 Labels -- 13.7.4 Problems of Labelling Maritime Spaces -- 13.8 The Limits of Law in the Eastern Indian Ocean -- 13.9 Indian Ocean Port-Cities -- 13.10 Empires, Nations, City-States -- 13.11 End Words -- References -- Further Reading.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, India's changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored in this book.
• Titolo autorizzato: India in the Indian Ocean world
• ISBN: 981-16-6580-X; 981-16-6581-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910743240003321
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