On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks. Both look very interesting. I am a little wary of Ph.D. theses > that are born again as books. I checked the preview of Book 2 on Google > books<http://books.google.co.in/books/about/In_Those_Days_There_Was_No_Coffee.html?id=tk-KZmcUEvAC&redir_esc=y>and > it looks very readable. They remind of of another (though academically > less rigorous) book I bought a few years ago that I also enjoyed: The > Story of Our > Food<http://www.flipkart.com/story-our-food/p/itmdyu8fvhznd6zx>by K.T. > Acharya. > > Book 1 is part of a series edited by Gurcharan Das that looks at history of Indian trade and commerce. Other books sound as interesting as Merchants of Tamilakam.
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