• ISBN13: 9789380607337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: February 16, 2013
• Pages: 242
• Original Price: INR 850.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 476 grams

This volume explores the changing meanings that maritime India acquired during the early modern period owing to the frequent efforts of the Mughals and the Portuguese from two different fronts to control its vast resourceful enclaves and profit-yielding neighbourhoods. By analysing the highly nuanced socio-economic processes and addressing the themes that have not been explored before, this volume creates a new framework for understanding the changing nature of maritime India.

Pius Malekandathil is currently Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His major publications include The Germans, the Portuguese and India (1999), Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500-1663 (2001), Jornada of
Dom Alexis Menezes: A Portuguese Account of the Sixteenth Century Malabar (2003), Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean (2010).