The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama: 6 (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Series Number 6) - Hardcover

Markovits, Claude

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521622859 ISBN 13: 9780521622851

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2000

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The book charts the development of merchant communities in the province of Sind from the pre-colonial period, throught colonial conquest, to independence. Describing how they came to negotiate trade throughout the world, the book throws light on the nature of these diasporas in their interaction with the global economy.

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Review of the hardback: 'The story of the global merchants of Sind was worth telling, and Markovits has told it like a novelist and a historian. All scholars of Indian economic and social history should be grateful to him.' The Book Review

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Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindu merchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Basing his account on previously neglected archival sources, the author charts the development of these communities, from the pre-colonial period through colonial conquest and up to independence, describing how they came to control trading networks throughout the world. While the book focuses on the trade of goods, money and information from Sind to the widely dispersed locations of Kobe, Panama, Bukhara and Cairo, it also throws light on the nature of trading diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book, written by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field. It will appeal to scholars of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and to students of religion.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521622859
• ISBN 13: 9780521622851
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344