Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

Chakravarti, Ranabir

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“…Chakravarti (2007, 2011) argued in detail that India enjoyed oceanic trade and commerce from early times. Smaller polities, both on the eastern and western Indian coasts, had considerable influence over oceanic affairs.…”

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“…An early sixth century land grant revealed the emergence of a sub-regional entity, Samatata, around the Noakhali-Comilla areas of the Indian subcontinent, today in Bangladesh. Polities like Samatata in the Bay of Bengal offered and established maritime linkages with six areas in mainland Southeast Asia (Chakravarti, 2007: 134; Chakravarti, 2011: 15). Along the Konkan coast, several ports like Sandan/Sindan (Sanjan), Subara (Sopara), Saimur (Chaul) and Sindabur (Chandrapura, in Goa) attained prominence because of this steady coastal network and long-distance maritime linkages with the Persian Gulf (Chakravarti, 2011: 23).…”

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Sovereignty and Maritime Practices in the Western Indian Ocean, 1700–1900

Chowdhary

2022

South Asia Research

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This article examines how far existing work on the Indian Ocean has focused on aspects like sovereignty and maritime law in the western Indian Ocean and argues for more research in this field. The conduct of shipping in the western Indian Ocean took a drastic shift during the period from 1700 to 1900 when an organised admiralty law was drafted in India, indicating that the role played by the British in this process cannot be disregarded. Highlighting the struggle between various European powers for supremacy over maritime trade and commerce in the Indian Ocean by analysing the available sources, this article identifies numerous gaps in studies of the Indian Ocean, which need further scholarly exploration.

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Sovereignty and Maritime Practices in the Western Indian Ocean, 1700–1900

Chowdhary

2022

South Asia Research

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“…Since the term palli or pallika refers to tribal hamlets, it appears that the village with the suffix palli/ pallika had emerged from tribal background and in the Parivrājaka and the Uchchakalpa rājyas these were inhabited by brahmanas, cultivators (kuṭumbins) and artisans (kārūns). 44 On the other hand, pura means a fortified and urban settlement and pēṭha comprised a cluster of individual villages and centres of commercial activities 45 ; but viṣaya meaning district referred to a larger territorial unit. To manage these different administrative units, a well-organised administrative structure was developed under the Parivrājakas and the Uchchakalpas, whose epigraphs inform us about different officials: Bhōgika, Amātya, Dūtaka, Sāṁdhivigrahika, Mahāsāṁdhivigrahika, Mahābalādikṛta and Uparika-several of these also appear in the Gupta inscriptions; these officials appear to have had managed the higher administration.…”

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Two Rājyas and a Dēvī: State Formation and Religious Processes in Central India (circa Fifth–Sixth Century ce)

Kumar

2020

Indian Historical Review

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This article analyses the formation of state polities in central India, where according to Ashokan edicts, āṭavī tribes had been present in the third century bce. From several of these tribes, āṭavīka-rājās (forest kings) arose by the fourth century ce and the Gupta monarch Samudragupta reduced them to the position of servants. This article argues that the two ruling houses—the Parivrājaka and the Uchchakalpa—rose to power in the second half of the fifth century ce in eastern Madhya Pradesh from āṭavīka background and erected their state apparatus similar to that of their overlord Gupta rulers. In the epigraphs of the Parivrājaka rulers, Ḍāhala region, comprising much of eastern Madhya Pradesh with Tripur ī (near Jabalpur) as its centre, is mentioned as a part of their rājya. The Parivrājaka and the Uchchakalpa rājyas had common boundaries and the epigraphs indicate the presence of some territorial conflict between these two. The article proposes that both of these ruling houses, having being subordinated to the Guptas, made land grants to brahmanas and temples for the integration of their territories. The shrines of a local tribal goddess Piṣṭapurikādēvī received land grants from both the Parivrājaka and the Uchchakalpa rulers, and this paper argues that under the patronage of these same rulers, this goddess was absorbed into brahmanical pantheons as Lakṣmī—the consort of god Viṣṇu, due to the efforts of a non-brahmana individual, Chhōḍugōmika. The state formation, accompanied by cult assimilation in central India, therefore had been a complex and multilayered process.

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Money and Urbanization: Exploring the Entente

Majumdar

2024

Handbook on Urban History of Early India

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Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

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Sovereignty and Maritime Practices in the Western Indian Ocean, 1700–1900

Sovereignty and Maritime Practices in the Western Indian Ocean, 1700–1900

Two Rājyas and a Dēvī: State Formation and Religious Processes in Central India (circa Fifth–Sixth Century ce)

Money and Urbanization: Exploring the Entente

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