03725nam a22005655i 4500 27402 27402 978-981-16-6581-3 DE-He213 20240716161106.0 a|||||o|||| 00| 0 cr nn 008mamaa 220303s2022 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789811665813 10.1007/978-981-16-6581-3 doi imu-kc DS331-349.9 HBJF bicssc 1FK bicssc HIS017000 bisacsh NHF 1FK thema 954 23 Mukherjee, Rila. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut India in the Indian Ocean World [electronic resource] : From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE / by Rila Mukherjee. 1st ed. 2022. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2022. XXVI, 410 p. 55 illus., 23 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction -- 2. India in the Indian Ocean world -- 3. Indian Ocean History-Writing -- 4. From Sail to Steam -- 5. India in the Indian Ocean world: The archaeological record -- 6. India in the Indian Ocean world: The classical period -- 7. India in the Indian Ocean world: The early medieval period upto 1300 -- 8. From an Indian Ocean Realm to an Indian Ocean World: Changes 1300-1500 -- 9. 1500-1800: The Age of European Ascendance -- 10. Redrawing the Indian Ocean: imperialism, colonialism and the settlement of sea spaces -- 11. The current state of Indian Ocean history writing. 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. It is organized in specific themes in thirteen chapters. It incorporates a wealth of research on India’s strategic significance in the Indian Ocean arena throughout history. It enriches the reader's understanding of the emergence of the Indian Ocean basin as a global arena for cross-cultural networking and nation-building. It discusses issues of trade and commerce, the circulation of ideas, peoples and objects, and social and religious themes, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The book provides a refreshingly different survey of India’s connected history in the Indian Ocean region starting from the archaeological record and ending with the coming of empire. The author’s unique experience, combined with an engaging writing style, makes the book highly readable. The book contributes to the field of global history and is of great interest to researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students across the fields of political, cultural, and economic history and strategic studies. Asia History. Ethnology. Economic history. Human geography. Cultural geography. History of South Asia. Sociocultural Anthropology. Economic History. Social and Cultural Geography. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789811665806 Printed edition: 9789811665820 Printed edition: 9789811665837 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6581-3 ddc EBK