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Transregional Trade & Traders

by Alpers Edward; GoswamiChhaya (Eds.)
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780199490684
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: History
  • Publisher: Oxford UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 408
  • Original Price: INR 1395.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1000 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General

About the Book
Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange that involved not only goods, but also people and ideas. This volume maps the trajectory of the extra-continental interactions of Gujarat and how it shaped the history of the Indian Ocean.

Chronologically, the volume spans two millennia, and geographically, it ranges from the Red Sea to Southeast Asia. The book focuses on specific groups of Gujarati traders and their accessibility and trading activities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. It not only analyses the complex process of commodity circulation, involving a host of players, huge investments, and numerous commercial operations, but also engages with questions of migration and diaspora.

Paying close attention to current historiographical debates, the contributors make serious efforts to challenge the neat regional boundaries that are often drawn around the trading history of Gujarat.

Edward A. Alpers, Research Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles, Chhaya Goswami, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of History, S.K. Somaiya College, Mumbai

Edward A. Alpers is research professor at the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Chhaya Goswami is head of the Department of History, S.K. Somaiya College, Mumbai, India.

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