Maritime India: The Indian Ocean: A History of the People and the Sea (McPherson), Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century (Arasaratnam), and Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800
This omnibus of three classic studies provides a basic grounding for scholars of India's maritime history. In an introduction written especially for this edition Sanjay Subrahmanyam locates these classics in the extant literature in the area. He argues that these works, the older being a quarter of a century old, are still insightful to new entrants into the field of maritime history.