Attached ppt with 7 slides. Includes a slide showing sewn boat with coir ropes from Kerala dated to 19th cent. BCE. To show that Bharat has been a Naval Power, a Super Power, an Economic Powerhouse of the globe accounting for 33% of World GDP. Of course, Bharatiya worked with cotton, and produced rice and cereals from 7th millennium BCE; had a remarkable corporate form of organization called śreṇi, 'guilds' for shared wealth of the nation, which is a factor of production in four factors, land, labour, capital and organization. Guilds, guild-masters are repeatedly mentioned on Indus Script inscriptions.
Hieroglyph ciphertext 'khāra, šē̃ṣṭrĭ̄''squirrel' Rebus: plaintext: khār 'blacksmith'
śrēṣṭhin 'guild-master' (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa).
The Tin Route of 4th millennium BCE predates Silk Road by 2 millennia.