Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

Situating trade and traders in the overall agrarian milieu of early India, this book highlights the diversities of merchants and market places. The author strongly argues against the perception of declining trade in India during the period AD600-1000, and demonstrate the linkages of trade at the locality level during this period. In depth analysis of maritime commerce in the Bengal coast [c.200BC to 1300] is a major feature of the book.