Ms Priyasha Dixit Archives - National Maritime Foundation

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…

SEA-BLIND INSTITUTIONS: HOW COLONIAL LEGACIES WEAKEN MARITIMITY IN INDIA

Establishing Background India presently aspires to invoke its civilisational oceanic heritage to be a leading maritime power, projecting influence in multiple dimensions of cooperation across the Indo-Pacific. …

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…

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…

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…

BOOK REVIEW: THE GOLDEN ROAD: HOW ANCIENT INDIA TRANSFORMED THE WORLD

William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury Publishing (London), 2024. 479 pages, ISBN: HB: 978-1-4088-6441-8, Rs 999 (Hardback) “The Golden Road—” has been authored by the esteemed British historian, William Dalrymple, who is widely recognised for…

REDISCOVERING INDIA’S MARITIME LEGACY OF ANCIENT SHIPBUILDING: THE “STITCHED SHIP” PROJECT

Abstract As India awakens from its deep maritime slumber and purposefully marches towards regaining its maritime identity as also its rightful place on the head-table of the community of nations, it is imperative that we delve deep into our…

BOOK REVIEW: "EMPIRES OF THE SEA: A HUMAN HISTORY OF THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD”

Radhika Seshan. Pan Macmillan Publishing India Pvt Ltd, 2024. 236 Pages, ISBN: 978-93-90742-50-9, Rs 357 (Paperback) Radhika Seshan’s book, “Empire of the Seas: A Human History of the Indian Ocean World”, breaks new ground in the ongoing…

THE CASE FOR INDIA’S SEAFARING LEGACY - ANCIENT INDIAN SHIPBUILDING

Keywords: Maritime History, Indian Maritime History, Shipbuilding, Ancient Shipbuilding, Maritime Heritage The contemporary global shipbuilding industry has been shaped by epochal change on a near continuous basis. Shipbuilding is itself…