India and the Islamic Heartlands

An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Gagan D. S. Sood, Gagan D. S. (London School of Economics and Political Science) Sood, Gagan Sood

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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 D. S. Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics, brokers, and scribes, among others - who were engaged in activities marked by large distances and long silences. By elucidating their everyday lives in a range of settings, from the family household to the polity at large, Sood pieces together the connective tissue of a world that lay beyond the sovereign purview. Recapturing this obscured and neglected world helps us better understand the region during a pivotal moment in its history, and offers new answers to old questions concerning early modern Eurasia and its transition to colonialism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-03-01
Mått153 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt550 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor358
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107551725

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Gagan D. S. Sood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Educated at the University of Cambridge and Yale University, Connecticut, Dr Sood received his doctorate from Yale's Department of History. Before arriving at the LSE, he held research and teaching positions at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute, Florence, and Yale University.

Prologue; Introduction; 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; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

'Sood successfully weaves a narrative on the basis of these exchanges to point out the obvious lacuna in existing scholarship on the region … this book opens up a fresh line of enquiry about the ways in which people of the region engaged with their polities and networks of circulation, and how these shaped their world and worldviews … What distinguishes the book from other similar kinds of writings is its dealings with its sources - letters that are far from adequate, often patchy, incomplete and certainly inarticulate. Typically ideas and views are expressed in the simplest and most localised idioms, and thus Sood must be credited for building a narrative on the basis of such materials and for further drawing scholarly attention to this neglected arena for further exploration.' Mithilesh Kumar Jha, LSE Review of Books