Overview of Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations Book

India s maritime contact with eastern Mediterranean and classical Rome (c. 1st century BCE 3rd century CE) has often been celebrated as Indo-Roman trade a prominent theme in Indian historiography. Rajan Gurukkal critically rethinks this exchange relation he argues that the expression Indo-Roman trade , when examined in the light of extant source material and theoretical insights, is a misnomer. Exchange of goods between the Mediterranean and the contemporaneous eastern world was a combination of multiple forms of exchanges in which trade was just one of many and was confined to Rome. Managing this ensemble was a highly collaborative, extensively networked and document-based enterprise. It necessitated a stratified society, state system and the entailing political economy of demand for luxury goods. Considering that such institutional and social structures were absent in contemporaneous peninsular India, this book dismisses the claims in south Indian historiography that early Tamil chieftains conducted overseas commerce. Neither there existed adequate naval technology to allow merchant bodies to conduct independent overseas trade nor was it necessary.

• • Book Type :

RethinkingClassicalIndo

• • Book Binding :

Paperback

• • Language :

English

• • Number of Pages :

• • ISBN - 10 :

019946085X

• • Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations Published On :

4 Jan 2016

• • Resource:

Students and Professionals:Textbooks, Humanities, RethinkingClassicalIndo

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