Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316393581
,
9781107121270
,
9781107551725
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2016)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107121270
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107121270
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316393581
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
