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India and the Islamic heartlands : an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange / Gagan Sood (London School of Economics and Political Science).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sood, Gagan, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merchants--India--History--18th century.
- Merchants.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--History--18th century.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Educational exchanges--India--History--18th century.
- Educational exchanges.
- Intercultural communication--India--History--18th century.
- Intercultural communication.
- India--Relations--Islamic countries.
- India.
- Islamic countries--Relations--India.
- Islamic countries.
- India--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Islamic countries--Social life and customs--18th century.
- India--Commerce--Islamic countries.
- Islamic countries--Commerce--India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- India & the Islamic Heartlands
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Cognitive patterns : accessing and making sense of the world
- A cosmic order: the meaning and end of life
- A familial order : ties of blood, duty and affect
- A relational order : intimates, strangers and plurality
- A communications order : language, writing and couriers
- A political order : temporal authority and governance
- Everyday practices : indispensable skills and techniques
- Flows and interactions : the connective tissue of the arena
- Conclusion
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-48208-1
- 1-316-48466-1
- 1-316-48509-9
- 1-316-48552-8
- 1-316-48595-1
- 1-316-48767-9
- 1-316-39358-5
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