Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750

by Stephen Frederic Dale and Stephen F. Dale

Book Overview

In this remarkable 1994 work of comparative economic history, Stephen Dale studies the activities and economic significance of the Indian mercantile communities which traded in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author uses Russian sources, hitherto largely ignored, to show that these merchants represented part of the hegemonic trade diaspora of the Indian world economy, thus challenging the conventional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521525977
• ISBN13: 9780521525978
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"