Gateway House, Avid Learning and the U.S. Consulate hosted a discussion “The Sea & Civilization: The origins of a globalized world” on 30 March, 2016.
Participants at the discussion included Lincoln Paine Maritime Historian, Editor and Author of The Sea & Civilization, and Sifra Lentin, Bombay History Fellow, Gateway House. It was moderated by Ranjit Hoskote, Cultural Theorist.
The discussion touched upon historic seafaring cultures and reveal how trade, religions and entire cultures spread across the world’s waterways to build the foundations of free trade, liberal commerce and global foreign policy.
After the event, Sifra Lentin, Gateway House’s Bombay History Fellow, sat down with Historian and Author of ‘The Sea & Civilization‘, Lincoln Paine, to discuss how the book came about and the Maritime history of India.