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This book examines the interaction between the Coromandel coast and its hinterland during the 16th century. Topical issues such as the territorial, geographical and administrative units, political structures, the agrarian economy, manufacturing sector, markets, inland trade, overseas commerce, the impact of the portugese business, prices and social changes are dealt in this work by assessing the strength and weakness of the Coromandel system, of which key aspects are linked to the opening of the portugese colonial world.

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S. Jeyaseela Stephen is Directeur, Institut pour études Indo-Européennes and was Professor of Maritime History at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan from 2001 to 2013. His publications include Oceanscapes: Tamil Textiles in the Early Modern World (2014), A Meeting of the Minds: European and Tamil Encounters in Modern Sciences, 1507-1857 (2016), From Anrique Anriquez to Louis Savinien Dupuis: The Tamil Grammar and Dictionary Quest (2017), and Missioner Tamil Written and Printed in Pondicherry:?Literature?and?Louis?Savinien?Dupuis,?1841-73?(2017).

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