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Throughout most of history, India was perceived as a land-based and land-oriented country, its eyes set firmly inwards, with the sea just there – perhaps to be drawn on maps for school atlases and, for some, to be discussed as part of the Indian defence services. In Empires of the Sea, Radhika Seshan sets to right this wrongful perception by looking at India’s maritime past and its place in the Indian Ocean world. The book covers trade routes, networks and empires built across the seas that connect India to the rest of the world – from the Sangam era up to the long colonial period.

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Radhika Seshan is the associate professor and head of the department of history at the University of Pune. A reputed academic writer, she is the author and editor of Narratives, Routes and Intersections in Pre-Modern Asia, Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast

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