[PDF] The Indian Diaspora In Central Asia And Its Trade 1550 1900 eBook

Author : Scott Cameron Levi
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
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Countering the commonly held notion that 17th-century Central Asia was economically isolated after the relative prosperity of the Mongol and Timurid Empires, Levi (Asian history, Eastern Illinois U.) argues that Indian merchants established a diaspora network of commercial communities across urban and rural Central Asia. Not limiting their exchange to the import-export trade, these merchants engaged in a variety of money-lending activities that placed them in a unique socio-economic position that allowed the mainly Hindu merchants to live for extended periods in Muslim countries. Furthermore, these merchants' associations with Indian family firms helped finance transregional trade, rural credit systems, and industrial production throughout Central Asia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Scott C. Levi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0822983214

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This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709–1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the Ferghana Valley. Levi reveals the many ways in which the Khanate’s integration with globalizing forces shaped political, economic, demographic, and environmental developments in the region, and he illustrates how these same forces contributed to the downfall of Khoqand. To demonstrate the major historical significance of this vibrant state and region, too often relegated to the periphery of early modern Eurasian history, Levi applies a “connected history” methodology showing in great detail how Central Asians actively influenced policies among their larger imperial neighbors—notably tsarist Russia and Qing China. This original study will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience, including scholars and students of Central Asian, Russian, Middle Eastern, Chinese, and world history, as well as the study of comparative empire and the history of globalization.

Author : Scott Levi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9351189163

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Caravans tells the fascinating story of countless Punjabi Khatri merchants who built great business empires through their ingenuity and spirit of adventure. Operating during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, these merchants risked everything and travelled across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and Russia. They used sophisticated techniques to convert a modest amount of merchandise into vast portfolios for trade and moneylending ventures. Caravans challenges the belief that the rising tide of European trade in the Indian Ocean usurped the overland ‘Silk Road’ trade, and demonstrates how thousands of Punjabis created a booming market in Central Asia at precisely this historical moment.

Author : Surendra Gopal
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Asia, Central
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A Regular Flow Of Men And Merchandise Has Been Characteristic Of The Millennia Old Relations Between India And Central Asia. Their Inclusion In A Common Cultural Complex Evolved Through Their Age Old Interaction Has Imparted Strength To Them For Overcomi

Author : Sébastien Peyrouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317100964

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With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-South Asia relations have become central to understanding the future of the Eurasian continent. Mapping Central Asia identifies the trends, attitudes, and ideas that are key to structuring the Central Asia-South Asia axis in the coming decade. Structured in three parts, the book skillfully guides us through the importance of the historical links between the Indian sub-continent and Central Asia, the regional and global context in which the developing of closer relations between India and Central Asia has presented itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the precise domains of Indo-Central Asian cooperation, and studies three conflict zones that frame Indo-Central Asian relations: the Kashmir question; the situation in Afghanistan; and fear of destabilization in Xinjiang. The international line-up of established scholars convincingly demonstrate the fundamental necessity to define the Indian approach on these issues and provide cutting-edge insights on the tools needed to understand the solutions for the decade to come.

Author : Scott Cameron Levi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0253353858

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An anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. It illustrates important aspects of the social, political, and economic history of Islamic Central Asia. It covers the period from the 7th-century Arab conquests to the 19th-century Russian colonial era and provides insights into the history and significance of the region.

Author : Chi-cheung Choi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004408606

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Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia studies overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their impacts on the emerging global economy from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, focusing on their networking and interactions with the empires and the states.

Author : Gijsbert Oonk
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9053560351

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Global Indian Diasporas discusses the relationship between South Asian emigrants and their homeland, the reproduction of Indian culture abroad, and the role of the Indian state in reconnecting emigrants to India. Focusing on the limits of the diaspora concept, rather than its possibilities, this volume presents new historical and anthropological research on South Asian emigrants worldwide. From a comparative perspective, examples of South Asian emigrants in Suriname, Mauritius, East Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom are deployed in order to show that in each of these regions there are South Asian emigrants who do not fit into the Indian diaspora concept—raising questions about the effectiveness of the diaspora as an academic and sociological index, and presenting new and controversial insights in diaspora issues.

Author : George Modelski and Robert A. Denemark
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2009-09-19
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ISBN : 1848262183

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World System History is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on World System History presents the study of the history of the world system. World system history offers an array of tools with which to apprehend the future. This volume discuss the essential aspects such as World-Systems Analysis; Big History; Epistemology of World System History: Long-Term Processes and Cycles; One World System or Many: The Continuity Thesis in World System History; World Population History; States Systems and Universal Empires; The Silk Road: Afro-Eurasian Connectivity Across the Ages; Dark Ages in World System History; The Kondratieff Waves as Global Social Processes; Globalization in Historical Perspective; Emergence of a Global Polity; World Urbanization: The Role of Settlement Systems in Human Social Evolution; Democratization: The World-Wide Spread Of Democracy in The Modern Age; The Rise of Global Public Opinion; East Asia In the World System; Incorporating North America into the Eurasian World-System. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0199768668

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Making environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, Water on Sand opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry.