Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India
The present book is a pioneering attempt to reconstruct the route systems of ancient India upto the eleventh century A.D., the traders that traversed them restlessly, the goods in which they dealt, and the manner in which they organised themselves for this trade which stretched not only over the entire Indian subcontinent, but from the islands of the East Indies to the shores of the Mediterranean. A unique feature of the book is the penetrating interpretation of Buddhist and Jaina sources of which the author had the most thorough command, and there are many deep insights into the relationship between geography and history. The work has been translated into various Indian Languages and has been praised as showing the way for future historical writing in India.
