Book review : Sanjeev Sanyal's book "The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History" INTRODUCTION : The approach to the study of history has been changing from time to time. Historians and scholars have opinioned the same topic differently by examining from a different perspective. This led to the emergence of various school of historiography like Colonial, Nationalist, Marxist, Subaltern, Annals etc. Various new studies still continues to evolve. Though not new, in recent days an approach to study history from multi disciplinary perspective acquiring momentum. Famous author Sanjeev Sanyal's book " The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History " is an detailed exploration of such an approach in which he viewed the human history through the vast influence of Indian Ocean. As the name suggest, Sanyal wrote the book by giving prime focus to the Indian Ocean and narrated how it's existence impacted across the world. His c...
