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The maritime activities of Indian sub continent have a hoary past. The inscriptions of medieval South India disclose information about the ports of Coromandel coast, the various kinds of boats and ships and goods that were imported and exported…

India is situated at the central point of the ocean that washes on its coast on three sides, seemed destined very early for a maritime future in the region. Both literature and archaeological works of the region are providing ample evidence about the…

Nagappattinam, a famous sea port of the imperial Cholas, is presently the headquarters of a District in Tamil Nadu, India. During the medieval Period, under the imperial Cholas, this port city played a vital role politically, commercially and…

SS Indus ran aground in 1885 somewhere in the North east coast of Sri Lanka while she was sailing from Calcutta or Kolkata to London via Colombo. At the time she possessed valuable cargo, a fine collection of sculptures from Bharhut, a 3rd century BC…

Textile is an important commodity produced from the early historic period in Southern India. In the early historic
period, different types of textiles were produced in Southern India as revealed by the textual sources. In the
archaeological…

“Museums are the mirror of what can be seen in reality” In this paper, a blueprint of a maritime museum is
presented, as in what way a museum can be of underwater archaeology. The efforts are to bring together the real
time experience of how an…