![]() ![]() Ranabir Chakravarti, an eminent expert in the social and economic history of early India, is known for his enduring interests in the Indian Ocean maritime trade during the pre-modern times. ![]() Who were these intrepid travelers from the Red Sea region and the ports of South Asia? Were they plying a luxury trade? What did they live, love, and carry home with them across the monsoon sea? By drawing from epigraphic, artifactual, and spatial evidence, stories of mariners and merchants, church officials, holy men, artisans, enslaved people, Indians, Christians, and others – and sometimes their shipwrecked goods – will people the first-millennium Indian Ocean bringing culturally-specific human concerns to light. This lecture, by two distinguished scholars of Indian Ocean maritime networks and trade, will focus on the crossing and experience of the first-millennium seascape. This joint lecture will take place online a Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants. ![]()
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