The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.21

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2. PANIKKAR, K. M. *India and the Indian Ocean*. London. 1951. "With Hippalus's discovery of the monsoons, the navigation of the Indian Ocean underwent a revolutionary change. Egypt had become a Roman province seventy-five years earlier (in 30 B.C.) and with the authority of the Empire established on the Isthmus, Roman trade in India had, even before the time of Hippalus, increased greatly in volume and range. We have Pliny's evidence that after the occupation of Egypt, Romans came 'to control a compendious route whereby India was brought near, that trade thither became lucrative'", p. 23.