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APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING MARITIMITY: INTEGRATING FORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND INFORMAL NARRATIVES

Overview The cultivation of maritime consciousness in India is neither a rhetorical flourish nor abstract symbolism; it is a strategic necessity. This article extends the argument outlined in the earlier study, which…

MARITIME TOURISM — THE CASE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

India’s engagement with the seas has historically extended beyond trade and naval power, encompassing and incorporating culture, mobility, and exchange. Despite this, contemporary policy continues to treat the maritime…

RE-READING INDIA–SINGAPORE MARITIME INTERDEPENDENCE

Relations between India and Singapore are frequently narrated along two familiar axes. At one end lies the empirical comfort of trade tables, FDI flows, port investments, and institutional agreements, each acting as…

REALIGNING INDIA’S NATIONAL MARITIME DAY TO KARTIK PURNIMA AND THE BALI JATRA- A POLICY PROPOSAL

India’s National Maritime Day, observed on 05 April each year, commemorates a single episode in India’s colonial history, the maiden voyage of the SS Loyalty under the British-Indian flag in 1919 from Bombay to London.[1] …

RECONNECTING ANCIENT SEA LANES THROUGH THE INDIA–OMAN MARITIME HERITAGE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Maritime Heritage and Museums during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Sultanate of Oman on 18 December 2025 marks a pivotal moment in India-Oman relations.[1] …

PROTECTING THE PAST BENEATH THE WAVES: LAW, POLICY, AND THE FUTURE OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY IN INDIA

The seas around India are not merely peripheral frontiers; they are repositories of history. Beneath the surface lies an archive of trade, migration, knowledge, and technology that stretches across millennia. India, with its…

DEVELOPING MARITIMITY IN INDIA

Keywords: Maritime History, India, India’s Maritime History, Maritime Identity, Maritime Consciousness, Maritime Awareness, Seapower Understanding ‘Maritimity’ ‘Maritimity’ is a concept that has been evolved to highlight…

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EXPLORING THE MARITIME SHAPING OF INDIAN GEOGRAPHY: PART 2 LINKING MARITIME MEMORY WITH MODERN UNDERSTANDING

The preceding part of this two-part article examined the Mauryan Empire’s efforts to integrate coastal dominion into its imperial logic in order to expand its power. It concluded that ancient Indian polities, although constrained by their…

BOOK REVIEW: “GALLIPOLI MEMORIES”

Compton Mackenzie. Panther Books (London), 1965. 315 pages, ISBN: 9781846649616 (Paperback) “One is so apt nowadays to regard even one’s own motives and actions during the War with a contemptuous cynicism that it is as well to remind oneself…

EXPLORING THE MARITIME SHAPING OF INDIAN GEOGRAPHY: PART 1 THE EARLIEST SPATIAL AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ANCIENT INDIAN POLITIES

This article sheds light on the tangible influence of India’s maritime history on its geographical development and cultural blossoming, from antiquity to the present. Tracing the distinct histories and spatial trajectories of two major seafaring…

INDO-GREEK MARITIME LINKAGES: PART 2 A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ANCIENT INDO-GREEK SOCIETIES

This text serves as a continuation of a prior article, which examined the historical and cultural interplay between India and Greece— two civilisations with a well-documented history of maritime contact and significant intellectual exchange…

INDIA-GREECE MARITIME LINKAGES: PART I LEVERAGING THE HISTORY OF TRADE BETWEEN INDO-GREEK

The civilisational ties between India and Greece may be considered an organic consequence of the extensive maritime trade that has occurred between the two societies throughout history. The expansion and integration of maritime networks acted…