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India and the Islamic heartlands: an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange

Sood, Gagan D. S. (2016) India and the Islamic heartlands: an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107121270

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Identification Number: 10.1017/CBO9781316393581

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: 01 Mar 2024 03:06
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/66040

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