Ranbir Chakraborty

Retired from Jawaharlal Nehru University. The professor's favourite subject of study is the socio-economic and political history of South Asia in the pre-modern period. His special interest in the maritime history of the Indian Ocean. In addition to publishing research-based articles in Bengali and English at home and abroad, he is the author and editor of the following books (incliding co-authors and edited books): Warfare for Wealth Early Indian Perspectives(1986), A Sourcebook of Indian Civilization (2000)Trade in Early Indian (2001/2005), Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty First Century A View from the Margins(2007), Exploring Early India up to c. AD 1309.