description: A pioneering study which challenges the conventional view about the importance of Roman and Arab seafarers to maritime trade in South Asia. It argues that Buddhism provided the structure necessary for the remarkable upsurge in trade in the period 400 BC to AD 400, using archaeological,literary and ethnographic evidence, much of it unpublished.
language: English
title: The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia
titlecomplete: The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia (Oxford India Paperbacks)
publisher: Oxford University Press