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  3. The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 October 2009
      22 June 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511497407
      9780521622851
      9780521089401
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497407
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.645kg, 344 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 344 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (6)
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (6)
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
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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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    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.’

    Source: The Book Review

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