ABSTRACT
The aim of this monograph is to describe selected boats of South Asia – their building and their use – as they were at the end of the twentieth century. The four principal chapters (Chapters 2, 3, 7 and 8) are based on fieldwork undertaken by a multi-disciplinary team between 1996 and 2000. Two members of this team are maritime archaeologists (SMcG and LB), another is a maritime ethnographer (EK) and the fourth is a naval architect (CP). This fieldwork and the subsequent research were financed as a project of the Society for South Asian Studies under the title ‘Boats of South Asia’.
