Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India
Overland and maritime routes, merchants, caravans, ports and commodities from Vedic times to the early medieval period, using Sanskrit, Pāli, Jain, Tamil and classical sources.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Moti Chandra
- Extent
- 1,263 passages, 129,788 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Abhinav Publications, New Delhi 1977; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (Moti Chandra †1981); freely available on archive.org, indianculture.gov.in — shown with credit…
Contents
- c1 Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India — 5 parts
- c2 Introduction — 53 parts
- c3 Preface — 4 parts
- c4 Contents — 2 parts
- c5 Chapter I: Ancient Trade Routes — 12 parts
- c6 Chapter II: Travellers in Protohistoric and Vedic Periods — 79 parts
- c7 Chapter III: Travellers in the Age of Mahājanapadas — 22 parts
- c8 Chapter IV: Travellers and Conquerors on the Grand Route of India in the Mauryan Period — 90 parts
- c9 Chapter V: Merchants, Conquerors and Barbarians on the Grand Route from the Second Century B.C. to Third Century A.D. — 84 parts
- c10 Chapter VI: Trade Between India and the Roman Empire — 65 parts
- c11 Chapter VII: Travellers in Buddhist Sanskrit and Later Pali Literatures (From the 1st Century to the 10th Century A.D.) — 42 parts
- c12 Chapter VIII: Traders of South India — 46 parts
- c13 Chapter IX: Traveller and Caravan Trader in Jain Literature (First Century to Sixth Century A.D.) — 38 parts
- c14 Chapter X: Travellers and Caravans in the Gupta Period — 96 parts
- c15 Chapter XI: Indian Travellers and Merchants from the 7th to 11th Century A.D. — 24 parts
- c16 Chapter XII: Indian Fleet Over the Seas — 32 parts
- c17 Chapter XIII: Caravan in Indian Art — 56 parts
- c18 Index — 68 parts