TY - BOOK AU - Malekandathil,Pius TI - Maritime India: trade, religion and polity in the Indian Ocean SN - 9789380607016 (pbk.) U1 - 954 MAL 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Delhi PB - Primus Books KW - Merchant marine KW - Indian Ocean KW - History KW - Commerce KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Sassanids and the Maritime Trade of India during the Early Medieval Period ch. Two Maritime Trade and Political Economy of Goa, 800-1500 ch. Three Dynamics of Economy, Social Processes and the pre-Portuguese Christians of India, 800-1500 ch. Four From the Trails of the Chinese to the Dominance of the Portuguese: An Overview of the Patterns of their Naval Voyages and the Maritime Policies in India ch. Five Maritime Polity and a Mercantile State: An Analysis of the Political Dynamics of Kerala, 1500-1663 ch. Six The Ottoman Expansion and the Portuguese Response in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1560 ch. Seven From Merchant Capitalists to Corsairs: The Muslim Merchants of Malabar and their Responses to Portuguese Maritime Trade Expansion, 1498-1600 ch. Eight Information Networking between India and the Mediterranean in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Contents note continued: ch. Nine Bengal and the Commercial Expansion of the Portuguese Casados, 1511-1632 ch. Ten Mercantile Wealth and the Estado da India: The Changing Pattern of Portuguese Trade with India, 1570-1663 ER -