Format:
1 online resource (333 pages)
ISBN:
9789047401209
Series Statement:
Brill's Inner Asian library v. 3
Content:
This text is concerned with the concept of time in the Bible and in later literature, primarily that of the Judaean Desert sect. The work discusses issues of terminology, substance and ideology that arise from the totality of texts dealing with the subject of time.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Maps and Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliterations -- Introduction -- A Brief Note on Geographical Terminology -- Chapter One: The Growth of Indo-Turanian Trade in the Early Modern Period -- Early Modern India, Turan and Iran: Political and Economic Overview -- The Historiography of Early Modern Overland Asian Trade -- State Policy and Overland Trade -- Commodities -- Chapter Two: The Emergence and Ethnic Composition of the Indian Merchant Diaspora -- Defining 'Diaspora' for the Present Purpose -- The Emergence of the Indian Diaspora in Early Modern Turan -- Diaspora and Identity -- Chapter Three: The Social Organization of the Indian Merchant Diaspora Beyond the Hindu Kush -- Life in the Diaspora -- The Magnitude and Dispersion of the Indian Diaspora -- Chapter Four: Indian Family Firms and their Economic Function in Early Modern Turan -- Religious Law, 'Guest Peoples' and Moneylending Institutions -- The Emergence of India's Moneylending Industry -- The Organization and Function of Indian Family Firms in India and Abroad -- Indian Family Firms, Capital and Credit in Turan -- Chapter Five: Russia and the Transformation of Indo-Turanian Commerce -- The Early Development of Indo-Russian Commercial Relations -- Russia Advances through the Steppe -- Indo-Russian Trade Relations in the Nineteenth Century -- Russian Colonial Policy in the Turkestan Krai and the End of the Diaspora -- Conclusion -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004123205
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004123205
Additional Edition:
Print version The Indian diaspora in Central Asia and its trade, 1550-1900
Language:
English
