Title: Coastal histories : society and ecology in pre-modern India /
Authors: Sharma, Yogesh.
Publisher: Primus Books,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Coastal ecology India History Congresses.; Coastal ecology Social aspects India History Congresses.; India History Congresses.
Abstract: Proceedings of a workshop on Coastal histories : society and ecology in coastal India, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries, held at New Delhi during 13-14 February 2007.
Contents: Implantation of commercial crops : chochineal culture and the regional ecology in the eighteenth century Coromandel / Arvind Sinha -- Of rivers and roads : transport networks and economy in eighteenth-century Bengal / Tilottama Mukherjee -- The politics and culture of early modern warfare on the Konkan coast of India during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Anirudh Deshpande -- Coastal polity and the changing port-hiearchy of Kerala / Pius Malekandathil -- Women in Portuguese India : their representation in sixteenth century sources / Joy L.K. Pachuau -- Disease, morbidity and mortality in the Indian Ocean world, 1500-1800 / Abhay Kumar Singh -- Life and death : life of early English settlers at Bombay, 1661-1760 / Vaibhav Sharma -- From fishermen to boatmen : the mucquas of Madras, 1650-1750 / Jangkhomang Guite.