A pioneering study which challenges the conventional view about the importance of Roman and Arab seafarers to maritime trade in South Asia. It argues that Buddhism provided the structure necessary for the remarkable upsurge in trade in the period 400 BC to AD 400, using archaeological, literary and ethnographic evidence, much of it unpublished.
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Seller: Black Letter Books, LLC., Stillwater, MN, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo, viii + 234pp. Illustrated with black & white plates and maps. Hardcover, bound in original cloth with pictorial dustjacket. In very good condition overall. Binding and hinges are intact and firm. Scattered underlining and marginalia to a couple chapters, otherwise clean. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities. The dustjacket is now protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper. A nice copy of a hard-to-find title. Seller Inventory # 011489