The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c15.s4.2

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¹ For a slightly different view: "As the Greeks were not the first to sail in the Arabian Sea, the knowledge of the monsoon winds—at least the obvious aspects of certainty, regularity and periodicity of the winds and their timely use in navigation—would have been probably diffused to them by the seafaring activities of the indigenous sailors inhabiting the littoral regions of the Arabian Sea.........." Hariharan, K. V. "Problem of the Discovery of Monsoon Winds" Journal of the Bombay University XXV, Pt. 4, Jan. 1957, pp. 9-16.