He has recently annotated the fourteenth century Latin Crusade text, How to Defeat the Saracens (English translation by Giles Constable, 2012).

A regular contributor to refereed journals published in India and abroad, Chakravarti has authored/edited several books, including A Sourcebook of Indian Civilization (2000) Trade in Early India (2005, paperback) Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society (2007) Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A View from the Margin (2007) and Exploring Early India (2012). Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India) Specializes in social and economic history of early India with a particular interest in the India Ocean maritime history. This book also includes two new appendices respectively on the Kushana political history and the seafaring to the island of Socotra in the light of recently discovered epigraphic date. It also offers critical readings of diverse primary sources from the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics and art-history, and the various congruent, and contesting, images of the past which they generate. Rich in empirical details and containing relevant illustrations and maps, the book delves into the historiographical thrusts and shifts in the study of early India and is marked by attempts to demonstrate elements of change in early Indian history beyond dynastic shifts.

Salient features of political, socio-economic and cultural history have been discussed elaborately, and regional diversities in early Indian history have been commented upon, Keeping in sight the commonalties at the subcontinental level. This third edition of Exploring Early India up to c.AD 1300 offers a broad overview and connected narrative of early Indian history, taking into consideration major historical development from the earliest times to c.AD 1300.

Exploring early india up to c ad 1300