Download or read book Trade in Early India written by Ranabir Chakravarti and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifteen essays underlines the significance of trade in the economic, political, and cultural life of traditional India, without dissociating it from the overall agrarian economy. Spanning the third millennium BC to 1300 AD, the book includes work from leading historians of early India and draws on new approaches to the study of trade and its links to social and political issues.