Title: Ships and the development of maritime technology on the Indian Ocean /
Authors: Barnes, Ruth.; Parkin, David.
Date: 2002
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon,
Physical description: xvii, 360 p. : ill., maps ; 2002.
Language: English
LC classification: V
Contents: Shipping in the Indian Ocean : an overview / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- Seafarings, ships and ship owners : India and the Indian Ocean (AD 700-1500) / Ranabir Chakravarti -- Seafaring in peninsular India in the ancient period : of watercraft and maritime communities / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- Archaeological evidence on shipping communities of Sri Lanka / Osmund Bopeararchchi -- Pre-modern Sri Lankan ships / Somasiri Devendra -- Classiying vessel-types in Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's Riḥla / Dionisius Albertus Agius -- Navigational methods in the Indian Ocean / ABdul Sheriff -- The rise and fall of Hadhrami Shipping in the Indian Ocean, c. 1750-c. 1940 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Continuity and adaptation by contemporary Swahili boatbuilders in Kenya / Susan Beckerleg -- The historical context of the construction of the Vattai fishing boat and related frame-first vessels of Tamil Nadu and beyond / Lucy Blue -- Yami boats and boat building in a wider perspective / R.H. Barnes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Indian Ocean Region--Economic conditions.; Indian Ocean region--History.; Indian Ocean region--Social conditions.; Shipping--Indian Ocean--History.; Ships--Indian Ocean--History.