1st Edition
Encounters: The Indian Ocean in 50 Objects
Chapter 1. Introduction
Himanshu Prabha Ray
Chapter 2. The Indian Ocean: Sea Stories and Marine Resources
Himanshu Prabha Ray
Chapter 3. Script Cultures: Graffiti, Dedicatory Inscriptions and Funerary Stele
Ashish Kumar
Chapter 4. Money as a Marker: Materialities of Exchange in the Indian Ocean World
Shailendra Bhandare; Sec 4.13: Chinese coins found around the Indian Ocean
Joe Cribb
Chapter 5. Islands at the Crossroads: Religious Networks across the Seas
Salila Kulshreshtha
Chapter 6. The Dhow Lives On ….
Rukmini Dahanukar and Himanshu Prabha Ray
Biography
Himanshu Prabha Ray is Tagore National Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, having worked earlier at the university as professor. Her recent books include Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks, 2021; and an edited volume, Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World, 2021.
Shailendra Bhandare is Senior Curator, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. His recent edited volume was Odyssey of the Rupee, published in 2026 to mark an exhibition celebrating 75th anniversary of independent India’s rupee coinage, curated by Shailendra and held at Sarmaya Foundation, Mumbai.
