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The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind [Sindh] from Bukhara to Panama

By Claude Markovits

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521622859, 9780521622851, 9780511018602
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2698982 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
Pages
344\345
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Claude Markovits' book charts the development of two merchant communities in the province of Sind from the precolonial period, through colonial conquest and up to indepedence. Based on previously neglected archival sources, it describes how the communities came to control trading networks throughout the world, throwing light on the nature of these diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book that will appeal to students of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and economic historians.

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