The Echoes of Rome in British and American Hegemonic Ideology

15. Trends in Economic History Writing of Early South Asia

“…The Victorian and Edwardian traditions also had an influence on the archaeological practices even in the twentieth century. Study of Roman monuments and artifacts helped to draw the discipline of archaeology into the sphere of imperial discourses (Hingley 2000, 1-16;Ray 2008a, 187-217;Parchami 2015 modities from the Roman Empire to India and vice versa. Cobb suggests that silver and gold, especially in coined form, are unlikely to have been the main commodities of trade, since other commodities filling the ships, such as wine, oil, pottery, metal ore, glassware, wheat, barley, slaves, etc., had their own demand.…”