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Port Towns of Gujarat / Sara Keller

By: Keller, SaraContributor(s): Keller, Sara | Pearson, MichaelMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | : 7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: Delhi : Primus Books, 2015Description: xxvii, 332 pages 24cmISBN: 9789384082161Subject(s): Social Sciences | Communities | Port cities -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses | Shipping -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses | Port cities | ShippingDDC classification: 307.760 KEL

Contents:

Foreword / Hasmukh Shah -- Introduction I / Michael Pearson -- Introduction II / Sara Keller -- 1. Climate change and Gujarat ports / Yoginder K. Alagh -- 2. Positioning Gujarat as a medieval mercantile centre: contours and context / Lotika Varadarajan -- 3. Translocations of medieval ports in the northern Indian Ocean and their impact on Gujarat's maritime trade in beads / Paul Lunde and Jennifer Craig -- 4. Surat City, its decline and the Indian Ocean, 1730-1940 / Douglas E. Haynes -- 5. Reflections on the port city of Surat as a case study / Michael Pearson -- 6. Looking for a safe haven: English merchants and the port of Ghogha vis-à-vis Surat during the seventeenth century / Nishat Manzar -- 7. Touched by winds of many seas: the port town of Lakhpat / Mariam Dossal -- 8. Mundra: a tale of walled port town / Chhaya Goswami -- 9. Mandvi: a port looking both ways / Edward Simpson -- 10. Genesis and growth of Khambhat as a port town, c.600 to c.1600 CE / Makrand Mehta -- 11. Parsis and the trading world of Bharuch: twelfth-nineteenth centuries / Meher Mistry -- 12. Port towns of Gujarat: travellers' accounts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Radhika Seshan -- 13. Piracy and northward coast: problems of definition / Lakshmi Subramanian -- 14. Coastal sites: possible port towns of Harappan time in Gujarat / Y.S. Rawat -- 15. Bharuch, the city-fortress / Sara Keller -- 16. Ports of Gujarat far and near -- cultural continuum: a study in urban morphology, c.1500-c.1750 / Adhya Bharti Saxena -- 17. Diu as an interface of east and west: comparative urban history in 'non-western' stories / Nuno Grancho -- 18. Surat in the seventeenth century: a pre-modern urban phenomenon / Ruby Maloni -- 19. Circulation, memory, landscape: Kachchhi Bhatias in Mundra and Bhadreshwar / Hideaki Suzuki -- 20. Ports and fine arts: the painter and the sea / B.N. Goswamy.

Summary: Papers presented at the symposium on "Port Towns of Gujarat," held at Daman during 14-16 December 2012.

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Foreword / Hasmukh Shah --
Introduction I / Michael Pearson --
Introduction II / Sara Keller --
1. Climate change and Gujarat ports / Yoginder K. Alagh --
2. Positioning Gujarat as a medieval mercantile centre: contours and context / Lotika Varadarajan --
3. Translocations of medieval ports in the northern Indian Ocean and their impact on Gujarat's maritime trade in beads / Paul Lunde and Jennifer Craig --
4. Surat City, its decline and the Indian Ocean, 1730-1940 / Douglas E. Haynes --
5. Reflections on the port city of Surat as a case study / Michael Pearson --
6. Looking for a safe haven: English merchants and the port of Ghogha vis-à-vis Surat during the seventeenth century / Nishat Manzar --
7. Touched by winds of many seas: the port town of Lakhpat / Mariam Dossal --
8. Mundra: a tale of walled port town / Chhaya Goswami --
9. Mandvi: a port looking both ways / Edward Simpson --
10. Genesis and growth of Khambhat as a port town, c.600 to c.1600 CE / Makrand Mehta --
11. Parsis and the trading world of Bharuch: twelfth-nineteenth centuries / Meher Mistry --
12. Port towns of Gujarat: travellers' accounts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Radhika Seshan --
13. Piracy and northward coast: problems of definition / Lakshmi Subramanian --
14. Coastal sites: possible port towns of Harappan time in Gujarat / Y.S. Rawat --
15. Bharuch, the city-fortress / Sara Keller --
16. Ports of Gujarat far and near --
cultural continuum: a study in urban morphology, c.1500-c.1750 / Adhya Bharti Saxena --
17. Diu as an interface of east and west: comparative urban history in 'non-western' stories / Nuno Grancho --
18. Surat in the seventeenth century: a pre-modern urban phenomenon / Ruby Maloni --
19. Circulation, memory, landscape: Kachchhi Bhatias in Mundra and Bhadreshwar / Hideaki Suzuki --
20. Ports and fine arts: the painter and the sea / B.N. Goswamy.

Papers presented at the symposium on "Port Towns of Gujarat," held at Daman during 14-16 December 2012.

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