TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mukund, Kanakalatha
AU  - Introduction by Das, Gurcharan
TI  - The World of The Tamil Merchant: Pioneers of international trade
SN  - 978-0-143-42473-4
U1  - 330.95482 
PY  - 2015///; c2012
CY  - Gurgaon
PB  - Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd.
KW  - Economics
KW  - Entrepreneurship
N1  - 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

ER  -