This volume sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, placing traditional South Asian boats in their social and archaeological contexts The market will include not only boat 'buffs', but also ethnographers, maritime ...
Boats of South Asia
This volume sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, placing traditional South Asian boats in their social and archaeological contexts The market will include not only boat 'buffs', but also ethnographers, maritime ...
Boats in a Storm
Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their ...
ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
Volume Three – South Asia. Sarnath ; Varanasi (district); Uttar Pradesh; 3rd B.C.-12th A.D.; Sarnath (site); bricks ... boats at Hogenakal on the river Kaveri, Tamil Nadu / Colin Palmer, Lucy Blue and Sean McGrail. South Asian Studies ...
The Rohingya in South Asia
... boats with more than 800 persons on board, and Thailand had also 'kept at bay a third boat with hundreds more'.14 A Malaysian deputy minister had stated that Rohingya would not be welcomed anymore after they illegally entered Malaysia in ...
War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849
... ships used for riverine warfare were introduced by the Mughals. For conducting riverine warfare in Bengal, the Mughals initially depended on war boats supplied by the zamindars.17 In 1539, during the riverine naval battle which Emperor ...
Boats of the World
In this book Professor McGrail attempts to correct some of the imbalance in our knowledge of the past by presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships.
Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific
... south of Asia the people by stake nets , bag - nets and hooks , in boats and in ships engaged in fishing are nevertheless very numerous . The pearl fisheries alone , in the Persian Gulf , employs a great collection of ships , and the ...
Conventional Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present
... boats imported from the USSR. The Osa boats were bigger than Komar class boats and each had a displacement of 165 tons and was only 128 ft. long armed with surface to surface missiles, and capable of all weather operations. The Eastern ...
South Asian Folklore
... boats and make use of gill nets , bottom nets , and vari- ous purse seine nets in order to capture predatory fish , bottom - dwelling fish , crabs and lobsters , and octopi and cuttlefish . Along the coasts of southern India , beach ...
The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia
... BOATS AND SHIPS OF BABYLONIA . Panyani , and the Patamar , range from a few tons to a few hundred tons . In India the Nao and the Kishti , in Burma the Thu or The and Serpa , are boats that might be described sepa rately . In Britain ...
Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia
... South Asia were transported over long distances primarily by means of pack bullocks and boats in the eighteenth century and into the early nineteenth. The 1820s and 1830s saw two new developments. First, bullock carts started slowly ...
