TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keller, Sara
AU  - Keller, Sara
AU  - Pearson, Michael
TI  - Port Towns of Gujarat
SN  - 9789384082161
U1  - 307.760 KEL 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Delhi 
PB  - : Primus Books
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Communities
KW  -  Port cities -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses
KW  - Shipping -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses
KW  - Port cities
KW  - Shipping
N1  - 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
N2  - Papers presented at the symposium on "Port Towns of Gujarat," held at Daman during 14-16 December 2012
ER  -