• ISBN13: 9789390430666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: June 7, 2021
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: INR 1150.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 440 grams

Focusing on inscriptional materials from South Asia, The essays in social worlds of premodern transactions bring together a range of new perspectives on social and economic history. They show how exchange is not only about commodities or items, but also about interactions and relationships between people. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of premodern South Asia. It will also be useful to anyone interested in exploring issues of social and economic history across regions and time-periods.

Mekhola Gomes is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Historical Studies and the Centre for South Asian Civilizations at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.As a scholar of the Indian Ocean world focusing upon premodern South and South-East Asia, Gomes specializes in social history, gender, epigraphy, and religion. Digvijay Kumar Singh teaches at Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, and is interested in the economic history of premodern South and South-East Asia, focusing particularly on the circulation of commodities, and networks across the Indian Ocean. Meera Visvanathan teaches at the Department of History, Shiv Nadar University. She is interested in the Brāhmī inscriptions of the early historic period and the social history of early India, with a focus on themes of caste and gender.