The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade, 1550-1900
Based on original research in the archives of Uzbekistan, this book surveys the early modern commercial relations between India and Central Asia and examines the emergence, economic function, social organization, and decline of an Indian merchant diaspora. This diaspora consisted of tens of thousands of Indian merchant-moneylenders living in communities dispersed across Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran, the Caucasus and much of Russia.The book illustrates how these diaspora merchants utilized their position as agents of heavily capitalized, caste-based Indian family firms to finance transregional trade and complex systems of rural credit and i…
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- ISBN: 978-90-04-12320-5
- EAN: 9789004123205
- Produktnummer: 1538619
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H24.5 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.6 cm 726 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 3
- Gewicht: 726
Über den Autor
Scott Cameron Levi, Ph.D. (2000) in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Eastern Illinois University.
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