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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _cBW/000281 _d30/10/2025
082			_a382.09 MUK
100			_aMukherjee, Rila.
245			_aPelagic Passageways _b: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism. _c/Rila Mukherjee.
260			_aDelhi _b: Primus Books _c, 2011.
300			_axv, 502p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b976
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aCommerce
650			_aNavigation
650			_a Trade routes
700			_aRila Mukherjee
942			_cBOOK
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