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Article: Maritime Archaeology: Historical Descriptions of the Kalingas.(Book Review)
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- Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
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- September 22, 2003
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Sila Tripati. National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. New Delhi: Kaveri Books, 2000. xxii + 166 pp., 20 maps, 14 b/w plates, bibliography, index. ISBN 81-7479-038-1.
Tripati aims to present a maritime history of the Kalingas from the earliest historical times, that is to say from the very last centuries B.C. (Mauryan period), until the thirteenth century A.D. The Kalingas, whose frontiers fluctuated according to historical events, mainly corresponds to contemporary Orissa, which formerly included the northern part of Andhra Pradesh. This book is the first attempt to present a historical account of the maritime activities of the Kalinga. Indeed, though deeply ...