Merchants And Ports In The Indian Ocean World

Author : Radhika Seshan,Ryuto Shimada
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000888614

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Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World by Radhika Seshan,Ryuto Shimada Pdf

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Connecting the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world. The book looks at the extensive range of maritime networks that criss-crossed pre-modern Asia and the Indian Ocean region connecting ports, peoples and cultures. It explores the connected histories of these regions and the movement of merchants, commodities and money which created the multi-cultural and cosmopolitan port cities like Surat and Nagasaki. With contributions from Indian and Japanese scholars, the volume analyses travellers’ accounts and trade routes between Japan and India, offering insights into how maritime movement shaped culture, politics and the social life of people in the most populated and productive regions of the world in the early modern period. Rich in archival material, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Indian Ocean history, maritime history, economic and commercial history, Asian and South Asian history and social anthropology.

Author : Radhika Seshan,Ryuto Shimada
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000841589

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Connecting the Indian Ocean World by Radhika Seshan,Ryuto Shimada Pdf

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World, explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world. The book examines the many overlapping linkages that existed from the early modern period and into the colonial era. It offers a clear understanding of the economic networks that extended across the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic during the 19th century. With a critical historical lens, the volume discusses themes like the opium trade in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago – the biggest opium trade market at the time; the Safavid mission to Siam; and the economic relationship between Pondicherry and West Africa, via France. Rich in archival material, this book will be of interest for scholars and researchers of Indian Ocean history, maritime history, Indian history, economic and commercial history, South Asian history, and social history, anthropology, and trade relations in general.

Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137566249

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Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World by Michael Pearson Pdf

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean.

Author : Pedro Machado
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107070264

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Ocean of Trade by Pedro Machado Pdf

Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on the Vāniyā merchants of Diu and Daman, Pedro Machado explores the region's entangled histories of exchange, including the African demand for large-scale textile production among weavers in Gujarat, the distribution of ivory to consumers in Western India, and the African slave trade in the Mozambique channel that took captives to the French islands of the Mascarenes, Brazil and the Rio de la Plata, and the Arabian peninsula and India. In highlighting the critical role of particular South Asian merchant networks, the book reveals how local African and Indian consumption was central to the development of commerce across the Indian Ocean, giving rise to a wealth of regional and global exchange in a period commonly perceived to be increasingly dominated by European company and private capital.

Author : Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Om Prakash
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Indian Ocean
ISBN : 8131732231

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The Trading World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 by Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Om Prakash Pdf

Author : Ashin Das Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN : 0195671759

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The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant 1500-1800 by Ashin Das Gupta Pdf

This collection brings together some seminal essays of the late Professor Ashin Das Gupta, one of the pioneers of maritime studies in India. It is organised into two parts: one containing Professor Das Gupta's general essays, and the other his more specific ones on Malabar and Surat. These essays chronicle the rise and fall of Indian port cities and of the communities of merchants who traded from them.

Author : Hugh Cagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196636

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Assembling the Tropics by Hugh Cagle Pdf

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.

Author : Ashin Das Gupta,Michael Naylor Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822003700127

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India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 by Ashin Das Gupta,Michael Naylor Pearson Pdf

This collection of essays surveys the history of maritime India from 1500 to 1800, focusing on trade and economic history as well as on the activities of European merchants and local traders. It convincingly argues that even though the Europeans often traversed the Indian Ocean to trade, their presence was not crucial to India's economic stability.

Author : Kenneth McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038552074

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The Indian Ocean by Kenneth McPherson Pdf

By the sixteenth century Europeans were part of this world as partners in trade with the indigenous peoples, but from the eighteenth century this economic relationship changed as the economies of the Indian Ocean world integrated with the capitalist economies of the West. The change from commercialism to capitalism ended the insularity of the Indian Ocean world and began its integration, as a region, into the global economy and its territorial division amongst various European powers. This transition altered the ancient web of regional relationships and, with the arrival of European settlers and rulers, added yet another layer to the palimpsest of cultures which flourished on the shores of the Ocean. By the twentieth century the Ocean was no longer a major force binding the peoples on its shores in a selfconscious entity, but the legacy of the past is still evident in their common religious, cultural and historical experience.

Author : R. J. Barendse
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0765633647

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Arabian Seas by R. J. Barendse Pdf

Author : Radhika Seshan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789390742554

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Empires Of The Sea by Radhika Seshan Pdf

An enthralling journey through 2,000 years of India’s steadfast relations with the seas. The Indian Ocean world’s significance in human history is impossible to dismiss. The 1,000-odd kilometres of the subcontinent’s coastline – which underpinned some of the world’s greatest empires and shaped countless human lives – therefore make for the perfect dock from which to embark on a journey through the centuries for a vital reappraisal of India’s history. In this eye-opening book, noted historian Radhika Seshan sets out to map our age-old connections with the seas, tracing maritime linkages from the Harappan period all the way to the long colonial era. Her re-examination of India’s past through the prism of water reveals the extent to which this conduit enabled trade and the movement of people, often leading to the establishment of crucial ports, communities, kingdoms and empires. The Chola, Chalukya and Vijayanagar empires, historic ports such as Muziris and Bharuch and accounts of travellers, explorers, merchants and monarchs who frequented India’s shores are explored here in vivid detail, with the sea providing a riveting backdrop of adventure, migration, invasion and rich cultural networks. While the arrival of the Europeans, the subsequent Raj and their consolidation of terrestrial networks marked the gradual decline of our maritime dominance, the seas hold sway over our geopolitics even today. Combining scholarly rigour with a storyteller’s flair, Empires of the Sea presents India afresh as a nation of pluralities made possible by virtue of its long-standing maritime relations with the world at large.

Author : Ashin Das Gupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India Ocean Region
ISBN : 0195664558

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Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World by Ashin Das Gupta Pdf

Chiefly on the organization of mercantile networks between the ocean and the hinterland states and the politics involved in it.

Author : Edward A. Alpers,Chhaya Goswami
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199096138

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Transregional Trade and Traders by Edward A. Alpers,Chhaya Goswami Pdf

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.

Author : Edward A. Alpers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195337877

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The Indian Ocean in World History by Edward A. Alpers Pdf

The Indian Ocean in World History explores the cultural exchanges that took place in this region from ancient to modern times.

Author : Roxani Eleni Margariti
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469606712

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Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade by Roxani Eleni Margariti Pdf

Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs. Approaching Aden's history between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries through the prism of overseas trade and commercial culture, Roxani Eleni Margariti examines the ways in which physical space and urban institutions developed to serve and harness the commercial potential presented by the city's strategic location. Utilizing historical and archaeological methods, Margariti draws together a rich variety of sources far beyond the normative and relatively accessible legal rulings issued by Islamic courts of the time. She explores environmental, material, and textual data, including merchants' testimonies from the medieval documentary repository known as the Cairo Geniza. Her analysis brings the port city to life, detailing its fortifications, water supply, harbor, customs house, marketplaces, and ship-building facilities. She also provides a broader picture of the history of the city and the ways merchants and administrators regulated and fostered trade. Margariti ultimately demonstrates how port cities, as nodes of exchange, communication, and interconnectedness, are crucial in Indian Ocean and Middle Eastern history as well as Islamic and Jewish history.