01481nam a22002417a 4500 2007 2007 OSt 20181203123159.0 181203b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978-0-143-42473-4 Allied Informatics, Jaipur 5606 13/11/2018 2018-19 BSDU English BSDU 330.95482 MUK Mukund, Kanakalatha The World of The Tamil Merchant: Pioneers of international trade Gurgaon Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd., 2015; c2012 191 How did the Tamil merchant become India's first link to the outside world? The tale of the Tamil merchant is a fascinating story of the adventure of commerce in the ancient and early medieval periods in India. The early medieval period saw an economic structure dominated by the rise of powerful Tamil empires under the Pallava and Chola dynasties. This book marks the many significant ways in which the Tamil merchants impacted the political and economic development of south India. Contents: 1. Merchants and Trade in the Pre-Modern Era: Issues and Insights 2. Trade and Merchants in Ancient Tamilakam 3. State, Polity and overseas Relations under the Tamil Kingdoms 4. The Temple, Nagaram and Merchants: A study in synergy 5. The Tamil Merchant down the Ages: a Restrospect Economics Entrepreneurship Introduction by Das, Gurcharan ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 BSDU BSDU GEN 2018-12-03 299.00 0 330.95482 MUK 017621 2020-02-12 00:00:00 299.00 2018-12-03 BK