The structure of the lecture focuses on six cities of the Indian subcontinent relating to the three travellers Marco Polo, Zheng He and Ibn Battuta and which were flourishing cultural and commercial centers of the Medieval era along the Silk Roads connecting the greater Eurasian continent. The module focuses on port-cities along the Western coast of India, bordering the Arabian sea and thriving trade centers before their colonization by European powers. Namely, these cities are: the city of Cambay reigning over the Gulf of Cambay, Cochin, the chosen trade post of the Ming Dynasty of China, Calicut the wonder-city of the Zamorin otherwise called the “city of spices”, Kollam, capital of the medieval Venad kingdom, and Kodungallur, the seat of power of the Chera dynasty and notable for its pluralism, in ethnicities, religions and of course, trade.
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