01545nam a22002297a 4500 20251112112111.0 251112b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789380607207 Brijwasi Book Distributors H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi BW/000281 30/10/2025 382.09 MUK Mukherjee, Rila. Pelagic Passageways : The Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism. /Rila Mukherjee. Delhi : Primus Books , 2011. xv, 502p. : 24cm. 976 This volume visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bengal as embracing upland landlocked areas—Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states—not usually seen as part of maritime history, therefore suggesting that they too be studied as part of the social and commercial networks of the Indian Ocean. There are not one but two deltas here: the western delta, corresponding to the present West Bengal, and the south-eastern delta, in present Bangladesh. The essays in this volume question the conventional fault line located on the south-eastern Bengal delta, between the historiography of South and SouthEast Asia. Concentrating on commodity and currency flows, travel, trade routesand interactive networks, this volume proposes that these areas be viewed as crossroads, mediating flows between the land-dwelling and aquatic worlds. Commerce Navigation Trade routes Rila Mukherjee BOOK 66615 66615 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-11-12 Brijwasi Book Distributors 976.00 0 382.09 MUK 31190 2025-11-12 11:21:29 2025-11-12 BOOK