Caravans: Punjabi Khatri Merchants on the Silk Road

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Penguin UK, 15/01/2016 - 256 páginas
Caravans tells the fascinating story of countless Punjabi Khatri merchants who built great business empires through their ingenuity and spirit of adventure. Operating during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, these merchants risked everything and travelled across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and Russia. They used sophisticated techniques to convert a modest amount of merchandise into vast portfolios for trade and moneylending ventures. Caravans challenges the belief that the rising tide of European trade in the Indian Ocean usurped the overland ‘Silk Road’ trade, and demonstrates how thousands of Punjabis created a booming market in Central Asia at precisely this historical moment.
 

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List of Maps and Illustrations
Merchants and the State
Indian Merchants in Central Asia
Indian Textiles
The Life and Death of a Diaspora
Conclusion

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Scott C. Levi is associate professor of Central Asian History at Ohio State University. His research focuses on the social and economic history of Central Asia in the broader context of the early modern Indo-Islamic world.

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