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India and the Islamic heartlands : an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange /
"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, c...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a India and the Islamic heartlands : |b an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange / |
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| 300 | |a xvii, 338 p. | ||
| 520 | 2 | |a "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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| 650 | 0 | |a Pilgrims and pilgrimages |z India |9 159740 | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Educational exchanges |z India |9 159741 | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Intercultural communication |z India |9 159742 | |
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