The Indian Ocean in Antiquity: Whither Maritime History? (Himanshu Prabha Ray, 2000)
The Indian Ocean in Antiquity: Whither Maritime History? (Himanshu Prabha Ray, 2000)
The Indian Ocean in Antiquity: Whither Maritime History? (Himanshu Prabha Ray, 2000)
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THE INDIAN OCEAN IN ANTIQUITY :
WHITHER MARITIME HISTORY ?
Studies on seafaring activity in the Indian Ocean are marked both by a
diversity of themes covered under the rubric, as also shifting emphases through
time. Often equated with maritime heritage, maritime history is seen to
incorporate a range of activities, such as trade, cultural contacts and contemporary
boat building. Attempts at developing adequate historical parameters within
which to incorporate or discuss these variegated themes are limited. What was,
for example, the nature of interaction between boat-builders and traders ? To
what extent could the political structure exercise control on trading activity ?
How did the silting of river-mouth settlements affect communication between
the coast and inland centres ? How can a study of present practices of boat
building techniques inform us about trading activity around the beginning of the
Christian era or about maritime history ? In most cases continuity between
historical periods and the present is implied rather than proved.
A good example of this is provided by a recent publication (Behera 1999).
This includes papers on a variety of themes : ranging from those on trading
activity (I. Wayan Ardika) ; trade and politics (H. Kulke) ; ports (A.N. Parida) ;
shipping (Lallanji Gopal) ; and regional maritime traditions, such as those of
Orissa (K.S. Behera), Bengal (N.C. Ghosh), and Tamilnadu (K.V. Raman). The
sources used are equally diverse, viz. archaeology (I. K. Sarma, Kishor K. Basa,
B.K. Sinha), epigraphy (B.N. Mukherjee), literary sources (U.N. Dhal, Haryati
Soebadio, Harprasad Ray), surviving boat building traditions and
ethnology (L.N. Swamy, Eric Kentley, B. Arunachalam). These papers seem to have
been collected during two seminars held at Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar :
one on Kalingas in the Indian Ocean in 1992-93 ; and the other on the
Maritime Heritage of India the date not being mentioned in the Preface. In
addition, the volume also includes contributions by scholars who did not
participate in these seminars, as also three already published papers, i.e. those of
Lallanji Gopal, A.R. Kulkarni and H. Kulke. Thus, rather than reflecting a
harmony in theme, methodology or approach, the volume is a loose collection of
papers around what may be broadly termed maritime heritage .
No effort is made in the volume to explicate the inter-relationship between
the disparate topics discussed, as it does not include either an introductory
chapter or a theme paper. Two papers by the editor, K.S. Behera, are included in
the volume : one, jointly with Kishor K. Basa on Indo-Roman Trade and the
Topoi 10 (2000)
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In this paper, the author's objective is to construct a model for the study of
Harappan sea trade based on an ethnographic study of the dhow (Ibid, p. 16).
An otherwise interesting paper is marred by several assumptions, the first being that
the dhows were Arab craft introduced in the early medieval period, which have
survived till the present. As will be discussed in the present paper, the term
dhow is of Swahili origin, rather than of Arab extraction. Nor is there any
evidence of its introduction in the early medieval period, instead as argued
elsewhere (Ray and Salles 1996, p. 1-10 ; Ray 199, p. 1-21) there is continuity in
the Indian Ocean sailing traditions, with the so-called Arab tradition being one
of these. Secondly, the utilisation of ethnographic studies on the present trade
between Gujarat and Oman for a reconstruction of Harappan trading patterns would
require some discussion on continuities between the two traditions. As will be
discussed later, these continuities need to be established rather than assumed.
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and Klings. While the former was used to designate Muslim merchants from the
Coromandel coast, the latter was often used interchangeably with Chetty and
denoted Hindu merchants from the Coromandel coast drawn from three
linguistic groups : Tamil, Telugu and Kannada (McPherson 1998, p. 187, 206,
footnote 2).
Quantification is difficult in the pre-modern period. Records available from
Melaka on the Malay peninsula would suggest that in the fifteenth century, in
addition to the Chulia and the Kling, nearly 1000 Hindu and Muslim Gujarati
merchants were resident at the coastal settlement, while 1000-2000 were on the
move across the Bay of Bengal at any one time during the sailing season1
(McPherson 1993, p. 155). In the early seventeenth century, nearly 1500
Javanese merchants travelled annually to Banda in search of spices, which they
carried to ports such as Melaka for purchase by Portuguese, South Asian and
Chinese merchants (ibid.). It would seem that while the Chulias are referred to
both as merchants and ship-owners, the same is not the case with the Kling who
seldom find mention as ship-owners.
These two terms are of much earlier circulation in the Bay of Bengal.
Foreign and local merchants involved with tax farming appear in the inscriptions
from Java dated between 840 to 1305 AD. The term kling refers both to people
specifically from India, and also as a general term for foreigners and in one
instance, it occurs as a part of the personal name - si kling (Barrett Jones 1984,
p. 25). Similarly the expression Colika is said to denote people from south India
(Sarkar 1969, p. 169). It is however, problematic to define aliens referred to
in inscriptions in ethnic terms.
Shipping
It would be best to begin by tracing the sources, which have been used for a
study of shipping ; the trajectory through which the ethnographic record came to
be compiled ; and the advantages or otherwise of the ethnographic data for an
understanding of maritime history. The theme may be studied from two
perspectives, the two not being mutually exclusive : one, the technology of the water
craft ; and second, the communities involved in the construction and sailing of
boats and ships. While the first approach has had a relatively larger following,
the literature on boat-building and sailing communities continues to be
inadequate.
A pioneering work on Shipping in the Indian subcontinent that is yet to be
replaced is Mookerji's study of 1912. A comprehensive survey of textual
sources, the work encompasses a time span truly monumental - extending from
the Vedic period to the nineteenth century. Perhaps a significant contribution of
Mookerji's study was to provide a comprehensive compilation of textual
references to seafaring, including the use of the Sanskrit work, Yuktikalpataru, a
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treatise on ship building attributed to king Bhoja and dated to the eleventh
century.
Mookerji's compilation has been reworked by subsequent scholars. While
Chaudhuri (1976, p. 137-147) based his paper on the Yuktikalpataru, Schlingloff
elaborated on the textual sources and compared these with representations in art
(1982 ; 1988). A more recent contribution by Sahai adds a chapter on the postIndependence period (1996). It is evident that none of the textual sources on
shipbuilding are adequately detailed to allow for the reconstruction of watercraft
based on these. It is nevertheless significant that in the eleventh century, these
instructions should have been incorporated in a work on statecraft and attributed
to the authorship of a king. In the wider context of South and Southeast Asian
Maritime History, it is from the ninth-tenth centuries onwards that there are
increasing references in inscriptions to fishing rights ; duties levied on
commodities brought through the water-routes ; and to revenue being obtained from
taxes on fishing. This is also a period of expanding maritime networks in the
Indian Ocean.
A second source used to advantage by Mookerji is the evidence from
sculptures, paintings and coins. In keeping with his hypothesis of Hindu
Imperialism , Mookerji argued that the vessels represented on the Buddhist
monument at Borobudur belonged to the Hindu- Javanese tradition - a contention that
has been disputed by several more recent works including by Manguin (1980).
But one aspect that Mookerji missed was the active encouragement given to
seafaring activity by Buddhism at this time (Ray 1994). More recent analysis of
the iconographie data from the Indian subcontinent has been undertaken by
Deloche who also includes memorial stones within his purview. In this study,
Deloche further expanded the scope by attempting an identification of these
representations of water craft on the basis of ethnographic parallels (1996).
Another pioneering work on the Indian Ocean is Hourani's study of Arab
Seafaring (1951). Hourani associates the history of Arab seafaring in the Indian
Ocean with expanding commerce that reached its peak in the ninth-tenth
centuries AD. After the tenth century the references are few and far between and
present a continuation of the earlier established traditions. The sources used for
the study continue to be literary combined with pictorial representations.
Hourani, however, accepts that shipping in antiquity cannot be straitjacketed into
national boundaries and that his study is to be located within the larger context of
traditional shipping in the western Indian Ocean. In spite of this disclaimer,
secondary sources have continued to designate watercraft described in Arabic
sources as Arab ships and hence trade carried out in these as Arab trade .
Documentation of boat types
There is historical evidence to indicate the existence of an indigenous
trading network in the Indian Ocean in antiquity, as also the prevalence of a
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shipping lists described Asian vessels that called at different ports as fustas,
yachts, sloops, brigs, galliots, frigates and phats. Writing of coastal traffic of
Travancore in the early sixteenth century, Duarte Barbosa termed the small
rowing vessels bargatim (Hill 1958, p. 202). In contrast, Tome Pires had little
acquaintance with matters maritime and the names of boats that he gives are all
transliterations into Portuguese of equivalent words (ibid., 204).
Thomas Bowrey (1650-1713) may be credited with the introduction of new
classifications, such as the masula - a term that continues to be used for the
frameless stitched boats of India's east coast. This is not a term used by local
boat builders and users who adopt the generic term for boat such as padagu,
padava and padhua. Nor does the term incorporate any typical boat type, as there
are significant variations in size, shape and method of construction among the
vessels said to form a part of the masula family (Kentley 1996, p. 250). But
perhaps Bowrey's contribution should be recognised more in terms of his boat
drawings, rather than boat typology 3.
This system of classifying boat types also presented a marked contrast to
the situation prevailing along the Indian coasts. While European ship-types may
be categorised on the basis of differences in their tackle, the same is not true of
the indigenous craft of the Indian Ocean. In the case of cargo vessels, regional
variations are often superficial and limited to the nomenclature used rather than
significant technological differences between them. In contrast, the hull forms of
fishing boats is more region specific, though here again more than one
nomenclature may be used to define a vessel. For example, the terms patia and danga
are often used interchangeably for clinker built vessels on the Orissa coast.
Another difference between the two is that while fishing craft are often built
either by the community themselves or by itinerant boat-builders, the large cargo
vessels are constructed at boat yards.
Similar problems of classification are encountered vis--vis cargo carriers.
These travel to distant centres of the Indian Ocean depending on the
remunerative freights offered and return to their home ports for overhauling during the
south-west monsoon. Often boats of the same type and build are given different
names on account of the nationality of the owner. Divergences are insignificant
and defined primarily in terms of ornamentation. The sambuk, though of Arab
origin is often constructed in boat-building yards on the west coast of India, an
important centre being at Beypore, south of Calicut on the mouth of the river
Chaliyar (Wiebeck 1987, p. 96). In addition to the sambuk, a variety of water3.
The significance of these drawings has been discussed by Hill : The interest which
attaches to Bowrey's boat drawings lies not in any possible claim they may be
supposed to have to photographic objectivity. The perspective is often faulty,
making the boat look much smaller than he intended. It is the structural details, the
rudder paddle, the outline of the hull, the position of the crew and the
superstructure, which repay a few moments' study in the light of what other writers have
said about them (Hill 1958, p. 216).
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craft, such as the padava, kotia, pattemar, etc., were also built at this centre. Its
major advantage was access to a wide variety of timber from the rain-forests
which formed the upper basins of the river (Kunhalli 1993, p. 56).
Thus the baghla and the gunjo are the Arab forms of the Indian kotia, the
Arab bum the counterpart of the Indian dhangi and nauri, with the Indian batel
representing the Arab sambuk (Hornell 1970, p. 197).
Admiral Paris (1806-93) formulated the hypothesis that indigenous
watercraft were as much expressions of a culture as were palaces, religious
buildings or fortresses. As a trained French navigator he circumnavigated aboard
the Astrolabe, the Favorite and the Artemis and catalogued the extra-European'
craft (Reith 1993). This trend continued in the writings of Hornell who argued
that a distinctive climate and coast formation dominated or influenced by distinct
ethnic stocks resulted in the evolution of characteristic boat-types (Hornell
1970, p. 195). In accordance with this correlation, boat-types were seen as
coextensive in range with the limits of race and language or the influence of
foreign sea-trade . Hornell also suggested that :
Until the arrival in the Indian Ocean of the Portuguese at the end of the
fifteenth century little improvement or change appears to have taken place. It
was the intrusion of the Europeans into the trade of the Indian Ocean which
brought about a revolution in the designing of the larger craft operating there
(ibid, p. 236).
As subsequent research has shown, this is perhaps an over-simplification of
a complex process (Qaiser 1982 ; Deloche 1996, p. 208-9).
Hornell was perhaps a pioneer in the field of documentation of watercraft.
Based on ethnological studies, he described distinct boat-building traditions that
evolved along the major regions of the Indian coastline. Thus the kotia is the
ocean-going craft of the Kutch and Kathiawar coast, while along the Konkan,
pattamars are used for coastal sailing. The dugouts of the Malabar coast are best
suited for the extensive inland network. Along the entire east coast, the
catamaran is the characteristic fishing craft, the name being derived from the Tamil
term kathu maram or tied logs, together with the masula, also known as padagu
among Coromandel fishermen. What is intriguing is the distinction in the boat
designs along the Palk Straits. On the Tamil side the catamaran and boat canoe
alone are used, while on the Sri Lankan side the outrigger canoe called oruwa is
the dominant type (Hornell 1920, p. 139-256).
In 1946 (reissued in 1970), Hornell published the distillation of a lifetime's
work in Water Transport in which his major preoccupation was with tracing the
evolution of watercraft, as also their common origins and diffusion. Many of
Hornell's conclusions continue to be repeated in academic writings and it is only
the boat typology formulated by him that has been modified in recent years
(McGrail 1985, p. 289-303). Another argument put forward by Hornell relates to
the common origins of certain boat types and their dispersion through migrations
and movements of people, a typical example being the outrigger canoe. The
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The primary interest was in recording the way in which the ship was run and
the means of navigation adopted. The cargo that the 20-ton ship carried consisted
of trans-shipped goods from Aden including Australian flour, two cases of
Japanese matches, a number of bales of Japanese cotton goods, some rice and
coffee and other items. In 1980, Tim Severin recreated the seven voyages of
Sindbad from Oman to China in a ship made from Malabar timber and held
together with coconut rope (Severin 1982).
In contrast to boat-building, nautical sciences have not received the
attention they deserve, especially in an historical context. In the traditional
system, navigation was based on stellar knowledge, and nautical learning was
founded on the accumulated experience of navigators. These skills were
communicated orally and learnt during years of apprenticeship. The maritime literature
in Greek, Sanskrit and Arabic dated prior to 1000 AD, was largely descriptive
and integrated accounts relating to coastal navigation, winds, ports, etc. into
descriptions of countries. From the end of the ninth century, however, a change
occurs and there are references to maps and portulans, though the real expansion
takes place in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Grosset-Grange 1996,
p. 202-242 ; Miquel 1996, p. 796-812).
Other papers that attempt to investigate the process of development do so
by analysing innovation and change in boat technology (Patel 1989 ; Kurien
1996). In addition, Kurien explains seeming contradictions such as large boats
in the poor fishery . This phenomenon is explained by the need to resort to
alternate occupations such as coastal cargo trade to compensate for the less
productive marine fishing grounds in Gujarat and the lowest demand for fish in
the hinterland (Kurien 1996, p. 221). In contrast, fish resources are both
abundant in Malabar and also available close to the coast. As a result the
carrying capacity of watercraft becomes a non-issue and the traditional vessel
used in the region is the small dugout or vallam.
Fishing and sailing communities
The next issue of relevance here is the study of the communities that
utilised the boats, viz. the fishing and sailing communities. Secondary sources on
this theme are by and large ethnographic and anthropological studies of localised
fishing communities in the Indian Ocean (Pokrant 1997, p. 32-48). The theme
has also been of interest to researchers involved in the process of social and
economic development of the fisheries sector. In the context of inland water
transport, a study was undertaken in Bangladesh to document the country boats
including their construction, operation, ownership and competition with
mechanised vessels (Jansen et al. 1989). The objective was to review the relationship
between the country boat sector and processes of rural development and
impoverishment, with a view to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the
country boat operations.
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items available at inland centres and yet there have been few attempts at
evaluating the role of coastal communities. On the testimony of the Periplus
itself, a diverse range of seafaring communities were involved in the Indian
Ocean in the Early Historic period. These included the Nabateans, Sabaeans,
Homerites, Arabs and Indians. Muza at the mouth of the Red Sea is described as
a port of trade without a harbour (section 24), but with a good road-stead for
mooring and teeming with Arab ship-owners or charterers and sailors (section
21). Leuko Kome on the Red Sea coast was the harbour of the Nabateans where
craft, none too large came to it loaded with freight from Arabia (section 19).
The island of Dioscurides or Socotra is referred to as being settled by Arabs and
Indians and even some Greeks who sail out of there to trade and there are
references to the export of sewn boats from Omana to Qana and Arabia (sections
30, 36).
One of the few literary sources that provide graphic accounts of fishing and
sailing communities is the early Tamil poetry. For example, in Akananuru (10,
8-13), the anonymous heroine is compared to the coastal settlement of Tonti :
Her beauty is like the rich Tonti, where in the fragrant seaside villages the
fishermen (paratavar) who still have new nets, and whose old boat (timil) was
removed in the sand heaps, broken by the glittering waves of the ocean ruffled
by the east-wind, having caught the shark in the high sand shore, divide it into
parts (Tchernia and De Romanis 1997, p. 93).
In another poem, fishing is described as one of the major activities of the
settlement at Muciri or Muziris. The fishermen are described as harvesting the
salt on the shore and collecting at the harbour where they take fat pearls from
the spreading waves and divide them on the broad shore (Akananuru 280). The
outer streets of a town are said to be inhabited by fishermen (Pattinappalai, 77).
One of the sites that could have provided invaluable data for the growth of
fishing and sailing in the region is the site of Arikamedu south of Pondicherry.
The site grew along the riverbank and extended for almost 480 metres northsouth. Wheeler had divided it into a northern and southern sector and Casal's
subsequent excavations had indicated that the southern sector was first settled by
fishing communities (Casal 1949, p. 31). This was modified by Wheeler, though
he accepted that prior to what he termed Roman contacts there was a fishing
village at the site (Wheeler 1954, p. 47). More recent excavations have
confirmed that the earliest settlement both at Arikamedu and in the region around the
site dates to the megalithic period. It is therefore, incomprehensible that without
any archaeo-zoological analysis and solely on the basis of pottery, the excavators
should conclude that :
In the archaeological record, there is no convincing evidence that
Arikamedu was a fishermen's village, although today fishing, like toddy making, is a
major occupation (Begley 1996, p. 14).
Significantly, the site was a centre for the production of bangles and ear
ornaments from marine shell in the subsequent Early Historic phase. The exca-
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Conclusion
It is then evident that the Indian Ocean presents special problems for the
historian and the archaeologist. On the one hand, it provides a profusion of
ethnographic data on indigenous traditions of fishing and boat building, while on
the other actual survivals of ship-wrecks are rare. First, tropical waters are not
conducive to the survival of wooden watercraft. Second is the question of
location of shipwreck sites. Unlike the Mediterranean, where ships carried
amphorae, glass and metals, vessels in the Indian Ocean were mainly used for
the transportation of perishables like spices, textiles, wood, dates and horses,
which decayed easily and were then covered by sediment or sand making
identification very difficult (Vosmer 1999, p. 296).
The Indian Ocean is also a region that has undergone radical shifts and
changes. Perhaps the single most significant point of disjunction was the
introduction of steamship navigation in the nineteenth century. Historical
evidence indicates that as a result, the indigenous system underwent radical
changes. Seafaring activity shifted from being fair weather to all weather .
Instead of the traditional communities, liner companies now dominated maritime
trade. The skilled manpower required for manning these mechanised vessels
could no longer be provided by the littoral sailing communities, and this led to
the marginalisation of coastal groups to traditional fishing activities. These
operations are in turn being threatened on account of mechanisation and the
introduction of commercial fishing.
Steam-shipping in the Indian Ocean had been pioneered since c. 1830, but
long distances and low density of traffic meant that until the 1 860s little else but
passengers were carried by the steamers of the few successful companies
(Broeze, McPherson and Reeves, 1987, p. 255).
It was only in the 1860s that regular cargo services entered the ocean with
the establishment of the liner companies. The all-weather steam vessel was
larger, faster, safer and more reliable than indigenous craft on long-haul coastal
and trans-oceanic voyages (McPherson 1993, p. 222). This resulted in the
indigenous sailing craft being driven to short-haul marginal and feeder routes,
such as for example between the west coast of India and the Persian Gulf.
Reduced demand for cargo carrying meant reduction in the number of vessels
being constructed and the closure of traditional boat-building yards.
Prior to this tilt in power relations in favour of steam navigation, the
trading system was governed by the regime of the monsoon winds. During the
summer months these winds blow from the south west and at this time they are
violent and stormy and frequently rise to gale force.
As a result sailing remains suspended from May until September along the
west coast of India as well as along the south Arabian coast. A reversal takes
place around October and the north east monsoon dominates between November
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to April. Thus the season for trade from Gujarat to Aden was broadly September
to May, for Aden to Malabar, October to February (Tibbetts 1971, p. 364-374).
This meant that sailing was seasonal and that for several months there was
no activity at the ports. The sailing season determined the price and movement of
export commodities.
Thus while documentation of any tradition of boatbuilding is of primary
importance, by itself it can provide little for a study of the past. It needs to be
analysed in conjunction with data regarding other aspects of seafaring activity,
viz. organisation and control of trading activity, religious and cultural expansion
and pilgrimage. This then makes it imperative that a judicious use be made of
ethnographic studies in combination with information from historical sources.
Nor should this utilisation be restricted to looking for analogies for boat-building
techniques, but should instead cover a range of issues involving the contribution
of fishing and sailing communities within a larger social context.
Himanshu Prahba RAY
Centre for Historical Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110 067
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