• ISBN13: 9789384082161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 360
• Original Price: 1350.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 694 grams

Port Towns of Gujarat provides new insights on cost-hinterland connections, urban morphology, port cities and littoral societies, the role of Gujarat in the Indian Ocean and data on the history of Gujarat, the Indian Ocean, and the many great port cities on India’s northwest coast.

Sara Keller is a Building Archaeologist and specializes in Urban History of Medieval India. She coordinates multiple research projects on pre-modern architecture and the tangible heritage of Gujarat. Since 2010, she has been conducting surveys and studies on the architectural remains of western Indian ports for the French research unit ‘Orient and Mediterranean’ and the Department of History, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Michael Pearson is Emeritus Professor of History at The University of New South Wales, Australia. He is an internationally renowned scholar who has published pioneering studies on the Indian Ocean and its history. The Indian Ocean, The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800 and Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean, count amongst his numerous publications which are now required readings for Indian Ocean studies.