Sood, Gagan D. S. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3489-4877
(2016)
India and the Islamic heartlands: an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
ISBN 9781107121270
Abstract
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 D. S. Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics, brokers, and 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.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/hist... |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author |
| Divisions: | International History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2016 09:56 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 05:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/66040 |
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