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Journal of Indian Ocean

 
S.P. Gupta (Editor)
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The articles in the present volume have been contributed by scholars from India and abroad. We present here the field reports of excavations and explorations on the Indian coastlands. The final season of excavations by the World Zarathustra Foundation at Sanjan have been reported in thsi volume. Sanjan, a medieval port-site on the western coast of India, has yielded evidence of a dakhma, the traditional 'tower of silence' where the Zoroastrian community lays its dead. Sanjan is associated with the migration of Zoroastrians to India during the 8th century AD. Also in this volume is the field report of explorations along the Kanara coast, the littoral tract of peninsular India little known in history. A number of scholars from the Deccan College, Pune and the National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai have submitted results of an underwater and coastal survey of the Gulf of Khambhat. There is a report on teh imported ceramics from Kamrej. This Early Historic port-site, excavated by the Indian Archaeological Society in 2003, was reported on in the inaugural issue of the JIOA (2004). In this issue, Roberta Tomber identifies as Aksumite an amphora-like pottery fragment found at Kamrej. Raj Somadeva offers a holistic perspective of early historic contacts between Sri Lanka and South India. Felix Chami seeks to place east Africa within the broader Indian Ocean interaction sphere.

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About the author

S.P. Gupta

Dr. S.P. Gupta, born in 1931, presently Chairman, Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi, is a distinguished archaeologist and art historian who has been awarded several gold medals and the Sir Mortimer Wheeler Prize for excellence in field-archaeology. He has worked and lectured in more than 30 countries of the world. He has authored a number of books including Disposal of the Dead and Physical Types in Ancient India (1971), Tourism, Museums and Monuments (1975), Archaeology of Soviet Central Asia and the Indian Borderlands - two volumes (1978), The Roots of Indian Art (1980) - the French edition of which was published in 1990 and Cultural Tourism in India (2002). He has also edited many books and published about 50 articles in various national and international journals and books.

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Bibliographic information

Title Journal of Indian Ocean
Author S.P. Gupta
Format Softcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
length iv+160p., Tables; Figures; Maps; Plates; Notes; References; 28cm.