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dc.contributor.authorTripati, S.
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-06
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-23T09:24:53Z
dc.date.available2017-10-25
dc.date.available2018-10-23T09:24:53Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationCurrent Science, vol.113(8); 2017; 1618-1623
dc.identifier.issn0011-3893
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/113/08/1618.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/7782
dc.description.abstractThe maritime history of India can be traced back to the Harappan Civilization. Studies suggest that even at that time, monsoon winds and currents assisted in navigation. Recent archaeological exploration and excavations along the Indian margin, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and coasts of Southeast Asia provide convincing evidence about a maritime network and connections between mariners of India and other parts of the world in ancient times. The author of Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (PES) (60-100 CE) has credited Hippalus (~45 CE), the Greek mariner, with the discovery of monsoon winds and the mid-ocean route to the Indian ports from the Mediterranean. However, archaeological findings of Harappan Civilization, as well as the Vedic and Sangam period texts, suggest that the mariners of India who were trading in the Indian Ocean and adjoining seas had knowledge about monsoon winds much before Hippalus. In this paper, an attempt has been made to demonstrate the fact that knowledge of the monsoon winds was familiar to Indian mariners during the Harappan Civilization as well as in the later period.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCurrent Science Association, IAS
dc.relation.ispartofCurr Sci
dc.relation.isreferencedbySCI
dc.titleEarly users of monsoon winds for navigation
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.affiliation.authorCSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India


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