Contents:Shipping in the Indian Ocean : an overview / Himanshu Prabha Ray --
Seafarings, ships and ship owners : India and the Indian Ocean (AD 700-1500) / Ranabir Chakravarti --
Seafaring in peninsular India in the ancient period : of watercraft and maritime communities / Himanshu Prabha Ray --
Archaeological evidence on shipping communities of Sri Lanka / Osmund Bopeararchchi --
Pre-modern Sri Lankan ships / Somasiri Devendra --
Classiying vessel-types in Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's Riḥla / Dionisius Albertus Agius --
Navigational methods in the Indian Ocean / ABdul Sheriff --
The rise and fall of Hadhrami Shipping in the Indian Ocean, c. 1750-c. 1940 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith --
Continuity and adaptation by contemporary Swahili boatbuilders in Kenya / Susan Beckerleg --
The historical context of the construction of the Vattai fishing boat and related frame-first vessels of Tamil Nadu and beyond / Lucy Blue --
Yami boats and boat building in a wider perspective / R.H. Barnes
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