Radhika Seshan

Oct 14, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Sanjay Subrahmanyam |Radhika Seshan |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy

The “Green Sea”, one of the terms used by Arabic speakers for the Arabian Sea, was linked to the wider world of commerce from ancient times with the earliest recorded contacts dating back to the Roman Empire. But from the 15th century, contacts increased and diversified, to include, as Sanjay Subrahmanyam has pointed out, the slave trade and movements of merchants and migrants from different parts of the Indian Ocean World and, later, the Europeans.

Oct 14, 2024 | flipboard.com | Radhika Seshan

Across the Green Sea: Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s New Book on Indian Ocean Trade HistoryThe “Green Sea”, one of the terms used by Arabic speakers for the Arabian Sea, was linked to the wider world of commerce from ancient times with the …

May 10, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Radhika Seshan

Book is part-primer, part-synoptic overview, which summarises for the lay reader different academic trends and discussions T.C.A. Raghavan Published 10.05.24, 11:11 AM A diagram of Sarkhel Sekhoji Angre’s warship Book: Empires Of The Sea: A Human History of the Indian Ocean World Author: Radhika Seshan Published by: Macmillan Price: Rs 550 Empires of the Seais part-primer, part-synoptic overview, which summarises for the lay reader different academic trends and discussions. It is, in...

Mar 15, 2024 | flipboard.com | Radhika Seshan

Radhika Seshan's 'Empires of the Sea: A Human History of the Indian Ocean World' sets out to map our age-old connections with the seas, tracing …

Mar 15, 2024 | theprint.in | Radhika Seshan

Also read: One thing all education ministers under Nehru aimed to do—make Indians doubt ancient valuesOn the return journey, ships would normally sail directly to Sri Lanka from the Southeast Asian countries before going up the Indian coast. Another option, particularly for the northern Bay of Bengal ports, was to cross over to the Burma coast and then proceed south along that coastline to the Melaka Strait and beyond.