Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600 1750

ISBN-13: 9780521454605 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 178 str.

Stephen Frederic Dale

Opis

This is a study of the activities and economic significance of the Indian merchant communities that traded in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their role within the hegemonic trade diaspora of the period. The author has made use of Russian material, hitherto largely ignored, to highlight the importance of these mercantile communities, and to challenge the conventional view of world economic history in the early modern era. The book not only demonstrates the vitality of Indian mercantile capitalism at the time, but also offers a unique insight into the social characteristics of an expatriate community in the Volga-Caspian port of Astrakhan.

Recenzje

"This slender and highly readable study is an important and provocative addition to the literature questioning the Eurocentric paradigm." Journal of Middle East Studies

Spis treści

l. An Indian world economy; 2. India, Iran and Turan in 1600; 3. The Indian diaspora in Iran and Turan; 4. Indo-Russian commerce in the early modern era; 5. The Indian diaspora in the Volga basin; 6. Imperial collapse, mercantilism and the Mughul diaspora.