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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Forty years on: Gujarat in the Indian Ocean / Edward A. Alpers -- Gujarat in the history of the Indian Ocean: navigating maritime pasts / Lakshmi Subramanian -- Gujarat and long-distance trade in the Indian Ocean Region before the sixteenth century / Philippe Beaujard -- Early historic Gujarat and the trading world of the western Indian Ocean / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- The commercial network of Gujaarat in the light of the Jewish documentary Geniza (eleventh-twelfth centuries) / Ranabir Chakravarti -- Reaching across land and sea: the transregional networks of a local man / Samira Sheikh -- Filling hearts with joy: handcrafted 'Indian textiles' exports to Central Eastern Africa in the nineteenth century / Sarah Fee -- Surat: city of ivory / Martha Chaiklin -- Coffee mocha: from the highlands of Yemen to Surat, Muscat, and Mandvi / Chhaya Goswami -- Ratansi Purshottam, the Gujaratis of Muscat, and the global connectivity of Indian Ocean transregional markets / Calvin H. Allen -- Adjusting output to demand: weavers and collateral service providers' equation with the English merchants in Gujarat in the seventeenth century / Nishat Manzar -- Gujarati merchant diaspora in South East Asia (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) / Ruby Maloni -- The deepest blue sea: Gujarati merchant shipping and the commercial currents of the Indian Ocean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Pedro Machado -- Merchants and marts: Gujarat's networks of trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Radhika Seshan -- Migration and creation of new societies: a story from the Indian Ocean / Abdul Sheriff |
| Summary |
Over a period of 2,000 years, Gujarati traders exchanged commodities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China and Europe. The 15 chapters in this book reflect this global history in sections organized under the headings of 'Historiography, Method, Sources', 'Commodities', and 'Trading Networks and Diasporas' |
| Notes |
"This collection of essays brings together a selection of the papers presented at the third international symposium organized by the Darshak Itihas Nidhi (DIN) ... hosted by the DIN at Surat in December 2015. The title of this most recent conference and the title of this book is Transregional Trade and Traders: Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to c. 1900." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 14, 2020) |
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Shipping -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses
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Merchants -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses
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Harbors -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses
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International trade -- History -- Congresses
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Commerce
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Harbors
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International trade
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Merchants
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Shipping
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Gujarat (India) -- Commerce -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- Congresses
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Indian Ocean Region -- Commerce -- India -- Gujarat -- History -- Congresses
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India -- Gujarat
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Indian Ocean
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Alpers, Edward A., editor.
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Goswami, Chhaya, editor.
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Darshak Itihas Nidhi (Vadodara, India), organizer.
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| ISBN |
9780199096145 |
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0199096147 |
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9780199096138 |
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0199096139 |
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