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Commerce And Culture In The Bay Of Bengal 1500-1800

	Commerce And Culture In The Bay Of Bengal 1500-1800 by Om Prakash And Denys Lombard ( Eds. )
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In the early modern period interaction between India and Southeast Asia embraced commerce, politics, culture and religion. This collection of essays seeks to explore some of these links by looking at the bay of Bengal region as a unity rather rhen simply as an aglomeratio of distinct political entities. Important themes explored in the volume are: the nature and extent of mariime trade between the two regions mainly by Indian merchants prior to the arrival of Europeans in the Indian Ocean at the end of fifteenth century as well as in the sixteenth and eightenth centuries, the trade carried on by the Europeans in the Bay of Bengal during this period, Indian in fluence on textiles used by Thai society, and the links between Singhalese Sangheand the Arakanese and Burmese Therevadin communities. Of interest to the historians of India and Southeast Asia as well as to the hitorians of the Indian Ocean. ISBN: 81-7304-296-6

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