On 10 December 2021, the Leiden Centre for Indian Ocean Studies brought together a number of foremost experts in epigraphy and Indian Ocean studies to start a conversation on the potentially shared ground between these fields of interest. This was prompted by the publication of a recent volume, Social Worlds of Premodern Transactions: Perspectives from Indian Epigraphy and History, edited by Mekhola Gomes, Digvijay Kumar Singh and Meera Visvanathan. Most contributors to this volume share a focus on premodern inscriptions in their transregional, multilingual, and multicultural contexts, which we believe provides a solid starting point to bring epigraphy and the Indian Ocean together.
Meera Visvanathan is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR
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