Guilds, Monarchs & Markets Dimensions of Inland & Maritime Trade in Peninsular India

Contents: Preface/Sachchidanand Joshi. 1. The Idea of Trade in Indian History/Rattan Lal Hangloo. 2. A Reconsideration of their Relations/Y Subbarayalu-Nagaram and Ainnurruvar. 3. Archaeology of Kalinga: Sisupalgarh and Beyond/Rabindra Kumar Mohanty. 4. Jain Trade and Traders as gleaned through the Early Brahmi Inscriptions of Tamilakam (c.2nd century BCE-c.4th century. CE)/M S Dhiraj. 5. Maritime Trade Networks between South-East Asian Countries and Early Historic Andhradesa (c.2nd-4th century CE)/N Chandramouli and Hari Babu Boddu. 6. Role of Pipli in the Socio-Cultural transformations of Medieval Odisha/Mamata Nanda. 7. Trade Routes and Guilds: Bearing on ancient Indian art activities: An art historical view with special reference to Karnataka/R H Kulkarni. 8. Maritime Interactions in the Early Medieval Tamilcountry with special reference to the Pallavas/S B Darsana. 9. Trade and Commerce under the Imperial Cholas/S Swaminathan. 10. Rise of Kollam port city in Early Medieval Kerala: Commercial and Cultural Linkages/Martiz Kurian and Gopi Krishnan G. 11. Karnataka's Maritime Contacts during Vijayanagara Period/ La Na Swamy. 12. Sea Banditry in the South-West Coast: Sense, Subsistence and Survival/Naseem Ashiq V. 13. The Egyptian Karimi Merchants in India's Trans-Oceanic Trade: A Revisit in the light of new Sources/Mohammed Shameem K K. 14. Maritime and Inland trade during Vijayanagara Empire: A Point of contact between Indian and European knowledge systems c.1500-c.1570 CE/ Donal Thomas. …