India and the silk roads : the history of a trading world
Material type: TextPublication details: Noida Harper Collins 2021Description: xiv, 415 pISBN: 9789354227240Subject(s): Trade routes | commerce | Asia--Silk Road | Eurasia | International economic relations | Central AsiaDDC classification: 382.09540903 Summary: Indias caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? Jagjeet Lally sets out to answer this question by bringing the world of caravan trade to life. India and the Silk Roads is a global history of a continental interior, the first to comprehensively examine the textual and material traces of caravan trade in the age of empires. By showing how no single ruler could control the nebulous yet durable networks of this trading world, which had its own internal dynamics even as it evolved in step with global transformations, Lally forces us to rethink the history of globalisation and re-evaluate our fixation with empires and states as the building blocks of historical analysis. It is a narrative resonating with our own times, as Chinas Belt and Road Initiative brings terrestrial forms of connectivity back to the fore-transforming life across Eurasia once again.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Indias caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? Jagjeet Lally sets out to answer this question by bringing the world of caravan trade to life. India and the Silk Roads is a global history of a continental interior, the first to comprehensively examine the textual and material traces of caravan trade in the age of empires. By showing how no single ruler could control the nebulous yet durable networks of this trading world, which had its own internal dynamics even as it evolved in step with global transformations, Lally forces us to rethink the history of globalisation and re-evaluate our fixation with empires and states as the building blocks of historical analysis. It is a narrative resonating with our own times, as Chinas Belt and Road Initiative brings terrestrial forms of connectivity back to the fore-transforming life across Eurasia once again.
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