A pioneering study which challenges the conventional view about the importance of Roman and Arab seafarers to maritime trade in South Asia. It argues that Buddhism provided the structure necessary for the remarkable upsurge in trade in the period 400 BC to AD 400, using archaeological, literary and ethnographic evidence, much of it unpublished.
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Himanshu P. Ray is at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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