CROSSINGS: EARLY MEDITERRANEAN CONTACTS WITH INDIA

The intention of this book is to open up European scholarship to Indian scholars and encourage the ongoing dialogue between scholars on both sides of the Indian Ocean. It looks at ancient relations between East and West through recent discoveries in Indian archaelogy, literature and history, rather than traditional Greco-Roamn sources. These recent discoveries have added new dimensions and stimulated radical reappraisals of the routes to Indian and Sri Lanka, the trading networks in both the Indian and Roman world and the impact of such trade on the Roman and Indian economies.