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A Short Note on Maritime Circulations
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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
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