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1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-333) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
India -- Relations -- Islamic countries.
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India. |
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Relations. |
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Islamic countries. |
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Islamic countries -- Relations -- India.
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India -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Islamic countries -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Merchants -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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Merchants. |
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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History. |
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Educational exchanges -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Intercultural communication -- India -- History -- 18th century.
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Educational exchanges. |
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India -- Commerce -- Islamic countries.
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Commerce. |
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Islamic countries -- Commerce -- India.
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Intercultural communication. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. |
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sood, Gagan, 1976- India and the Islamic heartlands. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107121270 1107121272 (DLC) 2015041998 (OCoLC)922694624 |
| ISBN |
9781316485958 (electronic book) |
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1316485951 (electronic book) |
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9781316393581 |
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1316393585 |
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9781316487679 |
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1316487679 |
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1316487245 |
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9781316487242 |
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9781107121270 (hardback) |
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1107121272 (hardback) |
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9781107551725 (paperback) |
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1107551722 (paperback) |
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1316485099 |
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