The history of Maritime India includes the sea-oriented history of India during the early medieval and medieval periods based on the frequent trade movement of commodities, people, and ideas from abroad. As a corollary, Maritime India was exposed to changes, novelties and foreign elements of different nature and categories, which make it remarkably distinctive in its social, economic and political processes. Pius Malekandathil in this volume, a compendium of essays, explores the historical trajectories of Maritime India that was shaped by the circuits in the Indian Ocean, highlighting various socioeconomic and political processes that evolved, over the centuries, giving it a distinctive consciousness and identity. Through the various chapters, Malekandathil precisely emphasizes that the consciousness of Maritime India was not only shaped by ecology and the geography of the coast alone, but also by the type of circuits and the value-condensed activities that the residents of a given geographical space...

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