Dr. Shajan K.P.

The proposed programme was mainly intended to collect literature on Indo-Roman trade, and to interact with experts in the UK and Europe in the field of early historic Indian ocean trade, to gain knowledge of the imported ceramics of the Roman period and Gulf region, and to get expertise in the newly emerging field of geo-archaeology. The research was carried out at the Centre of South East Asian Studies, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and various other institutions in the UK. A short visit to Egypt was also conducted during the fellowship tenure, and I attended the Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists held at the British Museum.