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Examine the increasing importance of maritime trade of India during thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Indian commerce with the outside world in this period moved along two parallel arteries — an overland route through the northwest passes and a seaborne network linking India's coasts to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and Southeast Asia.

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  • The Overland Route and Its Vulnerabilities
  • Gujarat and the Persian Gulf–Red Sea Axis
  • Bengal and the Eastern Seaboard
  • Sindh and the Coastal Network
  • The Content of Maritime Commerce

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