India and the Islamic heartlands : an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange / Gagan D. S. Sood.
By: Sood, Gagan [author.].
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TextPublisher: New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: xvii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781107121270 (hbk.) :; 9781107551725 (paperback).Subject(s): 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 -- IndiaDDC classification: 303.482540176709033 Scope and 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"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-333) and index.
"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"--