INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which among the following ancient authors has complained of the drain of gold to India (due to trade hegemony of ancient India)? The lamentation of the Roman writer Pliny in the 1st century A.D refers to heavy drain of Gold from Roman into India in payment of her imports from India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pliny the Elder, in 77 CE, called India “the sink of the world’s gold!” In the 16th century, Portugal protested that its hard-won silver from South America was being lost to India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 CE), generally known as Pliny the Elder, writing c. 77 CE, left probably the most important account of India and its trade with Rome that has survived in Classical literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -The great Roman historian Pliny wrote about the addiction to Indian luxury products. He complained about the drain of gold to India.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pliny (c. 77 CE) talks about the different items imported by the Romans from India and complains about the financial drain caused by them. He also refers to many Tamil ports in his work The Natural History.