Indo-Roman trade: Periplus, monsoon route, Arikamedu, Roman coin hoards, spices, textiles, Bharuch and Sopara
Whole chapter · 16–24 focused hours
Post-Mauryan India and the Sangam age
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained ancient/medieval history or art history. Later chapters assume the earlier chronological context; History optional and practical arts training are outside scope.
Includes
- Selected explanatory readings, images/maps and source extracts
- Brief chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Subsequent spaced revision and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book and optional exercise in full
- Exclude literary authorship catalogues and sculpture-school identification; assign those once in Culture.
Editorial planning estimate; not measured learner time
Where to study this topic
- Themes in Indian History Part I, Class XII, Theme 2 Kings, Farmers and Towns: Early States and Economies ↗
Theme 2 Kings, Farmers and Towns, 6. Towns and Trade (Silk Route, Periplus, The Malabar coast), pp. 16-18 (printed 43-45)
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗
Lesson 6 Polity and Society in Post-Mauryan Period, 6.4 Trade; Contours of International Trade; Muziri papyrus document; Foreign merchants (yavanas), pp. 102-104 (printed 98-100)
- Our Pasts I, Class VI, ch. 8 Vital Villages, Thriving Towns ↗
ch. 8 Vital Villages, Thriving Towns, The Story of Barygaza; A closer look: Arikamedu, pp. 6-10 (printed 84-88)
- R.S. Sharma, India's Ancient Past (publisher page with table of contents) ↗
ch. 23
Whole chapter reading
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XI History Volume I (lessons 1 to 11), full text ↗
Lessons 5–6, early Tamil society and post-Mauryan polities
- Themes in Indian History Part I, Class XII, Theme 3 Kinship, Caste and Class: Early Societies ↗
Kinship, caste and social differentiation; interpret texts as evidence rather than literal descriptions of all society.
- R.S. Sharma, India's Ancient Past (publisher page with table of contents) ↗
Chapters 20–23, regional states, southern society and commerce; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.
Book required