TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sood,Gagan
TI  - India and the Islamic heartlands: an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange 
SN  - 9781316485958
AV  - DS35 .I535 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Merchants
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Pilgrims and pilgrimages
KW  - Educational exchanges
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Prologue --; Introduction --; Cognitive patterns : accessing and making sense of the world --; A cosmic order: the meaning and end of life --; A familial order : ties of blood, duty and affect --; A relational order : intimates, strangers and plurality --; A communications order : language, writing and couriers --; A political order : temporal authority and governance --; Everyday practices : indispensable skills and techniques --; Flows and interactions : the connective tissue of the arena --; Conclusion --; Glossary; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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