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"International Webinar series on Trade, Urbanization and Trans – Cultural Interface"

Date: 27-11-2020

The Department of History organized an International Webinar Series entitled Trade, Urbanization and Trans-Cultural Interface intends to explore the contours of the centuries long trade/cultural interface developed through maritime contacts between the Malabar coast and the outer world, especially middle east and China, in the pre-colonial era. Malabar was the homeland of spices, which was in great demand all over the world and trading groups from across the world sailed to this land in search of various kinds of aromatics. The monsoon winds developed a congenial network channel favouring trans-oceanic contacts. These contacts played a vital role in moulding the cultural and demographic profile of the Malabar/Kerala region.The Webinar series was inaugurated by Dr.Mahmood Kooria,Leiden University,The Netherlands.He spoke on the topic Agrarian V/S Mercantile? Negotiations Between Coasts and Hinterlands in Pre-Modern Malabar.


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