_ 144 _ 256-271, 375-392, 435-467, 604-626; Ma Huan's account was translated and annotated by J.V.G.Mills, Ma Huan's Ying-yai Sheng-lan, the overall survey of the Ocean's shores (1433), Cambridge 1970. The publication of Chinese texts recently discovered by Prof. H.P.Ray of Jawaharlal Nehru University is expected shortly. A critical inventory and an excellent bibliography of Portuguese sources were compiled by the late A.A.Banha de Andrade, Mundos novos do mundo, 2 vols, Lisbon 1972. Since then, numerous sources dated before 1550 have been published in Portugal, notably by the Centro de Estudos de História e Cartografia Antiga of the Instituto de Investigação Clentífica Tropical, and other institutions. For a brief account of the political situation in India, see Romila Thapar, A History of India I, Penguin Books, ed. 1983, 226-337. For a more intensive study, the old and new series of the Cambridge History of India, Cambridge, 1922-37; the New Cambridge History of India, ed. Gordon Johnson, C.A.Bayly, J.R.Richards, in the course of publication, 1987. Several studies of the economic situation have been published in the Cambridge Economic History of India, Cambridge 1982 (in particular S.Digby, 'The Maritime Trade of India', 125-162).
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