ABSTRACT
The Indian Ocean sphere has been actively engaged in both trade and exchange for most part of the first millennium CE and previously in second millennium BCE. Different socio-economic and political spheres of influence such as in West Asia, the Roman world, East and North Africa, the Indian subcontinent have been connected through overseas trade. Ceramics form one of the most promising artefacts that enable us to reconstruct the various facets of this cultural interaction. The present will thus deal with the early historic trade and the exchange of different ceramics and their manifestations in understanding the complexities of the Indian Ocean sphere.
