‘Measuring by the bushel’: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade

Prange, Sebastian R.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00547.x

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“…History tells that the Malabar Coast situated on the southwestern border of the Indian peninsula was pirate infested on account of its near-monopoly on the production of black pepper, and also its central role as the hub of transshipment within the monsoon navigation system. 11 Malabar's reputation for piracy has also been substantiated in great detail in the travelogues of Marco Polo and Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah. 12 Portuguese and Arabic sources have also testified the continued involvement of piratical violence in the IOR.…”

Section: Maritime Piracymentioning

confidence: 94%

Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indian Ocean Region

Chatterjee¹

2014

Maritime Affairs: Journal of the National Maritime Foundation o

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The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has emerged as the world's major energy and trade route. The IOR littorals are concerned about the vulnerabilities in the region due to various nontraditional maritime security threats such as piracy, maritime terrorism, climate change, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, illegal immigration, and smuggling of arms and drugs. This paper analyses various causes and the patterns of the abovementioned challenges and examines the effects of these threats on the IOR littorals. The paper concludes that multilateral cooperation is essential to combat the non-traditional maritime threats.

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Section: Maritime Piracymentioning

confidence: 94%

Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indian Ocean Region

Chatterjee¹

2014

Maritime Affairs: Journal of the National Maritime Foundation o

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“…Pepper's history has long been told in terms of trade with the West, but it is apparent now that China was one of the main markets for pepper in the Middle Ages. In other words, pepper was going both directions from the Malabar Coast, connecting China with all points in the Indian Ocean (Prange 2011). Similar motives in the trade of musk connected Tibet with the Indian Ocean world and parts beyond.…”

Section: Reaching Tibet: a New Geography Of Plaguementioning

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Taking "Pandemic" Seriously: Making the Black Death Global

Green¹

2015

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This essay introduces the inaugural issue of The Medieval Globe, “Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death”. It suggests that the history of the pathogen Yersinia pestis, as it has now been reconstructed by molecular biology, allows for an expanded definition of the Second Plague Pandemic. Historiography of the Black Death has hitherto focused on a limited number of vector and host species, and on Western Europe and those parts of the Islamicate world touching the Mediterranean littoral. Biological considerations suggest the value of a broadened framework, one that encompasses an enlarged range of host species and draws on new archeological, genetic, and historical researches to look for the presence of plague in the premodern Indian Ocean basin and East Africa, areas where it has previously not been suspected.

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“…all belonging to the family Piperaceae. Piper nigrum is native to Malabar coast of India as the vine requires tropical hot and humid climate with optimum temperature of 28 o C and high rainfall of about 125-200cm for its growth (Prange, 2010) . Piper longum is native to Indo-Malayan realm which includes different regions of India such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya and many more.…”

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Variations in the Piperine content in three varieties of Pepper and mapping its anti-inflammatory potential by molecular docking

Hussain¹,

Sali²,

Vasanthi³

2022

NRFHH

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Pepper known as the king of spices is one of the most widely used spice in the world, and it has its fair share of medicinal properties as well. It has been used in traditional medicine for many centuries owing to its medicinal properties apart from its flavour and pungent taste. Piperine is the most important bioactive compound present in different Piper species. Differences among the three Piper species common in South India viz. Piper nigrum, Piper longum, and Piper cubeba were evaluated by estimating the various phytochemicals such as alkaloids, flavonoids, and phenols in them. Further, the quantity of piperine in these three Piper species were determined using HPLC analysis. The piperine content in Piper nigrum, Piper longum, and Piper cubeba were found to be 235.05 μg/mL, 268.50 μg/mL, and 8.56 μg/mL respectively. Since inflammation is the major pathology involved in most of the disease conditions and since pepper is traditionally used in managing respiratory inflammation, we ventured to identify its anti-inflammatory potential. Herein, the anti-inflammatory properties of piperine were checked by in silico docking analysis of piperine with inflammatory proteins. The interaction of piperine with NF-κB, COX-2, COX-1, and TNF-α, as evidenced by the binding scores reveals that piperine interacts with them and modulates inflammation. Further in-vitro and in-vivo studies are warranted to scientifically validate the traditional claims.

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‘Measuring by the bushel’: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade

Cited by 27 publications

References 9 publications

Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indian Ocean Region

Non-traditional Maritime Security Threats in the Indian Ocean Region

Taking "Pandemic" Seriously: Making the Black Death Global

Variations in the Piperine content in three varieties of Pepper and mapping its anti-inflammatory potential by molecular docking

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