Ranabir Chakravarti

Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi specializes in the social and economic history of early India, with a thrust particularly on the maritime trade of India in the Indian Ocean (c. AD 7-15). In addition to his research articles in international journals both from India and abroad, he has so far published Warfare for Wealth: Early Indian Perspective (Calcutta, 1986; Prachin Bharater Arthanaithik Itihaser Sandhane (in Bengali, 1st edn. Kolkata, 1991, 2nd edn. Kolkata, 22). A Source book of Indian Civilization (Hyderabad, 2, one of the contributors and Associate Editors); Samaj, Sanskriti, Itihas: Essays in Memory of Professor Ashin Das Gupta (in Bengali, one of the editors, Kolkata, 2); Trade in Early India (ed., New Delhi, 21; Paperback edition 25). He has recently completed Membership of teh Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (25-6).