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Trade routes and communication pattern of ancient Orissa

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Title Trade routes and communication pattern of ancient Orissa
 
Creator Tripati, S.
Patnaik, S.K.
 
Subject archaeology
navigation
underwater exploration
communication systems
 
Description Since the dawn of civilization in India, Indians have shown the interest in trade. The morphological features of India enabled to carryout overseas and land route trade smoothly. The evidences of trade in India is dated back to the Harappan culture. The geographical location of India enabled her to have strong contact with Africa on the west and eastern Archipelago on the east. During early historical times India was well connected with important trade centres like Taxila in the north to Kaveripattinam in the south and from Tamluk in the east and Broach in the west. It is evident from literary and archaeological sources that important routes existed for internal trade and royal activities. So far such work has been done on trade routes of India but no serious attempt has been made for the study of the trade routes and communication pattern of ancient Orissa. Thus an attempt is made to trace out the trade routes and communication pattern of ancient Orissa in the light of available archaeological and literary sources. The strategic geographical location of Orissa helped her in rising to great altitude in respect of trade and communication pattern from the Pre-Buddhist period. Orissa served as a bridge between the transoceanic and inland trade of India causing migration of cultural traits alongwith trade and commerce. The recorded history of Orissa begins in 261 B.C. The two rock edicts of Asoka, the excavations at Jaugarh and Sisupalgarh provide ample facts on the life pattern, administrative policy and the socio-economic relationship of the people Sisupalgarh and Jaugarh have been identified respectively as Tosali and Somapa of Asoka as mentioned in inscriptions. These two metropolices were the key centres of trade and royal activity. Other rural pockets existed in and around these cities were the store house of different products
 
Date 2009-01-21T11:10:28Z
2009-01-21T11:10:28Z
1996
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Gauravam: Recent researches in indology (Prof. B.K. Gururaja Rao felicitation volume, eds. Ramesh, K.V.; Shivananda, V.; Sampath, M.D.; Swamy, L.N. 396-404p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2242
 
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Publisher Harman Publishing House, New Delhi, India