TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gagan D S Sood
TI  - India and the Islamic heartlands : an eighteenth - century  world of circulation and exchange
SN  - 9781107121270 (hardback)
U1  - 303.4825401767 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge university press
KW  - Merchants
KW  - Pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Educational exchanges
KW  - Intercultural communication
N2  - "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"--
ER  -