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India and the Islamic heartlands : an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange / Gagan Sood (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016

1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2016)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-316-39358-1 (ebook); 978-1-107-12127-0 (hardback); 978-1-107-55172-5 (paperback)

978-1-107-12127-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

BV043695522

OCoLC: 956333812     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9781316393581

DS35.74.I56

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Merchants -- History -- 18th century -- India ; Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History -- 18th century -- India ; Educational exchanges -- History -- 18th century -- India ; Intercultural communication -- History -- 18th century -- India ; India -- Relations -- Islamic countries ; Islamic countries -- Relations -- India ; India -- Social life and customs -- 18th century ; Islamic countries -- Social life and customs -- 18th century ; India -- Commerce -- Islamic countries ; Islamic countries -- Commerce -- India

Merchants ; India ; History ; 18th century ; Pilgrims and pilgrimages ; India ; History ; 18th century ; Educational exchanges ; India ; History ; 18th century ; Intercultural communication ; India ; History ; 18th century ; India ; Relations ; Islamic countries ; Islamic countries ; Relations ; India ; India ; Social life and customs ; 18th century ; Islamic countries ; Social life and customs ; 18th century ; India ; Commerce ; Islamic countries ; Islamic countries ; Commerce ; India

Based on the chance survival of a remarkable cache of documents, India and the Islamic Heartlands recaptures a vanished and forgotten world from the eighteenth century spanning much of today's Middle East and South Asia. Gagan Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics, brokers, scribes, among others - who were engaged in activities marked by large distances and long silences. By elucidating their everyday lives in a range of settings, from the family household to the polity at large, Sood pieces together the connective tissue of a world that lay beyond the sovereign purview. Recapturing this obscured and neglected world helps us better understand the region during a pivotal moment in its history, and offers new answers to old questions concerning early modern Eurasia and its transition to colonialism.