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001			18946426
010			_a 2015041998
020			_a9781107121270 (hardback)
020			_a9781107551725 (paperback)
082	0	0	_a303.4825401767 _bGAG/I
100	1		_aGagan D S Sood
245	1	0	_aIndia and the Islamic heartlands : an eighteenth - century world of circulation and exchange
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge university press _c2016
300			_axvii, 338 p. _billustrations, maps ;
520	2		_a"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"--
650		0	_aMerchants
650		0	_aPilgrims and pilgrimages
650		0	_aEducational exchanges
650		0	_aIntercultural communication
942			_cBK
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