India and the Islamic heartlands an eighteenth-century world of circulation and exchange
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, cleric...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Cognitive patterns: approaching the world
- 2. A cosmic order: the meaning and end of life
- 3. A familial order: ties of blood, duty and affect
- 4. A relational order: intimates, strangers and plurality
- 5. A communications order: language, writing and couriers
- 6. A political order: temporal authority and governance
- 7. Everyday practices: indispensable skills and techniques
- 8. Flows and interactions: the arena's connective tissue