This book is unique in the sense that the author in this work has traced the maritime trade-links of the Kalingas, a people of Southeastern India, from the prehistoric times, by diligently following a study-design based on the place-names of the land. With the assumption that names of some places indicate the origin of immigrants who had come to this country for maritime trade in the past, the author has screened more than fifty thousand place-names of Orissa, visited hundreds of his selected sites to note down archaeological evidence, if any, and examined the socio cultural practices of people, in looking for traces of cultural impact of the alien settlers of the past. In this book, he has presented his findings in such a coordinated manner that they, on the whole, act as the corroborative evidence in support of his stated hypothesis. In this process, the author has discovered how southeastern India was in contact with the great civilizations of the ancient world that flourished in