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LOL at indians making up history to feel better about being subjugated for 1000 years. There is no such thing has Chola and no such thing has Mauryan. In fact, india has no written records pre-dating the Central Asian invasions. Everything is indian imagination about a "glorious past" before they were conquered and made to serve their masters.
China actually has encyclopedias of written history for every single dynasty detailing what happened every single day similar to an archive of newspapers. That is how we know the first blue water fleet in the world was Chinese in the Ming dynasty. The Ming dynasty fleet sailed to present-day india and then recorded "a bunch of unsanitary barbarians live there."
Will keep adding to this.
This link will give you a list of ports in ancient India dating back to the Bronze Age Excavation Sites in Gujarat - Archaeological Survey of India
One of the main ports of the IVC was Lothal
Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization. Located in Bhāl region of the modern state of Gujarāt and dating from 2400 BCE. Discovered in 1954, Lothal was excavated from February 13, 1955 to May 19, 1960 by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the official Indian government agency for the preservation of ancient monuments. Lothal's dock—the world's earliest known, connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea.It was a vital and thriving trade centre in ancient times, with its trade of beads, gems and valuable ornaments reaching the far corners of West Asia and Africa.
Lothal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trade during the Chola period
Trade during the Mauryan empire
You have to agreed that India's maritime history is sketchy to say the least. Even some achealogists think the ancient dock unearthed could well be just for irrigation. You do have not evidences of any early Indian ships used nor the type of technology used in the building of these ships if any. Your maps of the trade routes are based on discovery of items and not evidence of actual Indian traders. As far as I know Arabs and Persians traders had dominate the trade routes in ancient times. I have not heard of ancient India traders.
James HolmesMy guess is that the Indian Navy commands a significant advantage over the PLA Navy in the domains of airmanship and seamanship. Indian mariners are steeped in a naval-aviation culture that the Chinese are only starting to instill.
Again....cough cough....Chola dynasty was there since BC. We were trading with the Romans and Greeks in BC through trade routes. So read more. The time you have mentioned is only the peak of the Chola empire. Not when they started trading routes. This is much earlier. And the IVC ports lets not even go down there.
Please note : My posts are not to say the Chinese do not have a maritime tradition, simply to refute an earlier poster who was laughing at Indian maritime history.