India and the Islamic Heartlands
An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange
Nonfiction, History, Asian, India, Religion & Spirituality
| Author: | Gagan D. S. Sood | ISBN: | 9781316482087 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Publication: | March 29, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gagan D. S. Sood |
| ISBN: | 9781316482087 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication: | March 29, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Language: | English |
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 D. S. Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics, brokers, and 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.
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 D. S. Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics, brokers, and 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.
