India and the Silk Roads

India and the Silk Roads

Author: Jagjeet Lally

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-05-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0197651046

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This book brings to life the world of caravan trade--constituting not only merchants, but also pilgrims, pastoralists, and mercenaries; flows not only of goods, credit and money, but also of ideas, secret intelligence and fighting power. Contrary to the view that the ages of sail and steam rendered obsolete these more 'archaic' forms of overland connectivity, Jagjeet Lally demonstrates how the annual transhumance between North India and the Central Asian steppe was critical to the production and exercise of political power into the nineteenth century. Central to this narrative is the waning of the Mughal Empire and the emergence in the mid-eighteenth century of a new Afghan kingdom, whose leaders drew their power from the financial flows and force of arms moving through the networks of caravan trade, and who thus patronised the continued traffic between India and inland Eurasia. India and the Silk Roads is a global history of a continental interior, the first to comprehensively examine the textual and material traces of caravan trade in the 'age of empires'. Lally tells a story resonating with our own times, as China's Belt and Road Initiative once again transforms life across Eurasia.


Gazetteer of the Jhang District, 1883-84

Gazetteer of the Jhang District, 1883-84

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Publisher: Sang-E-Meel Publication

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 216

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The Gazetteer Provides Historical, Administrative, Demographic, Anthropological, Financial, Geographical Information For The Year 1883-84.


Gazetteer of the Hisar District, 1883-84

Gazetteer of the Hisar District, 1883-84

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Publisher: Sang-E-Meel Publication

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 122

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This Gazetteer Provides Historical, Demographic, Anthropological, Financial, Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural Etc. Information On The District Of Hissar For The Year 1883-84.


Gazetteer of the Karnal District, 1883-84

Gazetteer of the Karnal District, 1883-84

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Publisher: Sang-E-Meel Publication

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

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The Book Is A Collection In A Systematic Form Of Information Administrative, Geographical, Economic, Demographic, Social Political, Agricultural, Industrial, Statistical Etc. Which Had Been Scattered And In Part Unpublished For The District Of Karnal For The Year 1883-1884.