India and central Asia: commerce and cultural, 1500-1800 (Record no. 78422)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780195686470
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Classification number 306 IND
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Personal name Levi,Scott C. (ed.)
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Title India and central Asia: commerce and cultural, 1500-1800
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. OUP
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2007
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Extent 282p.
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Summary, etc. Most scholarly works and textbooks characterize the medieval Indo-Central Asian relationship as more or less unidirectional and violent, defined by successive waves of aggressive Turko-Afghan Islamic invasions of a passive Hindu India. They also tend to overlook the peaceful exchange of people, ideas, and material goods. Departing from the traditional scholarship, this reader, the eighth in the Debates in Indian History and Society series, provides new insights into India-Central Asia relations between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.<br/><br/>Did India's relationship with Central Asia grow during the period under consideration or falter? Were cultural or commercial connections more significant? India and Central Asia raises some important questions. In an incisive introduction, Scott C. Levi examines the key contours of various debates and the changing historiographical perspectives. He also investigates areas where new issues have emerged, and others that need further investigation.<br/><br/>The book is divided into two parts. The first section on commercial relations deals with Mughal-Uzbeg relations, trade patterns, commodity structure, merchant networks, and the Indian diaspora. It conclusively questions the notion that Indo-Asian trade suffered a general decline. Highlighting active socio-religious connections, the second part discusses the Central Asian heritage of the Mughal rulers, Fargana's contacts with India, and the impact of Central Asian Sufism on Islam in India. It also explores Perso-Islamic cultural exchanges and cross-fertilization in the field of literature, painting, religion, and astronomy.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Culture-India-Central Asia
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