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MAUSAM: MARITIME CULTURAL LANDSCAPES ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN

Edited By :- Himanshu Prabha Ray

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Pages: xiv+94

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-524-9

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 24cm x 24cm

Product Year: 2014

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?Mausam? or Arabic ?Mawsim? refers to the season when ships could sail safely in the Indian Ocean and these seasonal monsoon winds underwrote both a shared culture in the past, as also the continued survival of maritime regions into the present. ?Maritime cultural landscape? was used by Olof Hasslof, the Swedish maritime ethnologist in the 1950s to indicate an understanding of the use of the sea by humans and included attendant coastal structures and cultural identifiers. The papers in this book examine the development of coastal settlements and architectural remains from the third millennium bce Bronze Age to almost the present across a large part of the Indian Ocean extending from Arabia to Vietnam. A second objective of the book is to relate this understanding of the past with that of the present and to highlight the extent to which indicators of historical cultural networks provide building blocks for contemporary societies, as they work towards universal values and trans-border groupings?both of which underwrite UNESCO?s 1972 World Heritage Convention. The Convention encourages the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity, thereby focussing on the universal, rather than the local or regional. The book will appeal to readers of maritime history, as well as those involved in heritage studies.

Preface v List of Illustrations xi 1. Maritime Landscapes and Coastal Architecture: The Long Coastline of India 1 ? Himanshu Prabha Ray 2. Indian Contribution to the Archaeology of Its Neighbours 19 ? Pravin Srivastava 3. The Archaeology of Kachchh in Gujarat: Defining Cultural Landscapes 33 ? Yaduvir Singh Rawat 4. Re-examining ?Fringes? in Prehistory: Arabian Coastal Landscapes 49 ? Akshyeta Suryanarayan 5. The Coastal Temples of Vietnam: Sanctuaries of International Maritime Pilgrims 67 on ?The Silk Road of the Sea? ? Tran Ky Phuong 6. Heritage Routes and Gaps in World Heritage 83 ? Shikha Jain and Somya Johri Contributors 93

Himanshu Prabha Ray is Chairperson of the National Monuments Authority, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi and Professor, Distant Worlds, Munich Graduate School of Ancient Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.

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