Author : Ruby Maloni
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Harbors
ISBN :
On the commercial activities in Surat, India, in 17th century and its role as a trade route and harbor of Mogul Empire; a study.
Author : Moin Mir
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 8193600932
Born and raised in India, Moin Mir has worked extensively in the fields of advertising and brand consulting across Europe and Asia. Driven by his passion for History, Sufism and cultural revivalism and restoration, Mir began by working on the translation of Mirza Ghalib’s (India’s foremost Urdu poet) letters into English – a project that inspired him to pursue his interests in History even further. Mir is a descendant of Hazrat Modud Chishti, one of the stalwart founders of the Chishti Sufi order. He is also a scion of the Nawab family of Surat and next in line to succeed his father as the Darbar of Kamandiyah, Gujarat India. He lives in London with his fiancé Leonie Moschner.
Author : Jorge Flores
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199093687
In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several Portuguese merchants in Khambayat rushed to Akbar’s presence. This encounter marked the beginning of a long, complex, and unequal relationship between a continental Muslim empire that was expanding into south India, often looking back to Central Asia, and a European Christian maritime empire whose rulers considered themselves ‘kings of the sea’. By the middle of the seventeenth century, these two empires faced each other across thousands of kilometres from Sind to Bijapur, with a supplementary eastern arm in faraway Bengal. Focusing on borderland management, imperial projects, and cross-cultural circulation, this volume delves into the ways in which, between c. 1570 and c. 1640, the Portuguese understood and dealt with their undesirably close neighbours—the Mughals.
Author : Ashin Das Gupta
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9788173040832
This Is A Reprint Of Author`S Classic Work Originally Published In Germany In 1979. Surat Was The Principal Mughal Port In Early Eighteenth Century And Was Not Only Well Connected In India But With Central Asia As Well. However, Surat`S Prosperity Declined In The First Half Of The Eighteenth Century. Drawing Upon English, Dutch, French Records, Persian Chronicles And Gujarati Sources, The Book Explains This Decline Of The Port City Of Surat.
Author : Radhika Seshan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1000888614
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 : John F. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521566032
This traces the history of the Mughal empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. It stresses the quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their innovation in land revenue, military organization, and the relationship between the emperors and I
Author : Anthony Webster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1137463929
This book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, Southeast and South Asia covering the period from 1750 to the present.
Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1316953262
In recent decades, private investment has led to an economic resurgence in India. But this is not the first time the region has witnessed impressive business growth. There have been many similar stories over the past 300 years. India's economic history shows that capital was relatively expensive. How, then, did capitalism flourish in the region? How did companies and entrepreneurs deal with the shortage of key resources? Has there been a common pattern in responses to these issues over the centuries? Through detailed case studies of firms, entrepreneurs, and business commodities, Tirthankar Roy answers these questions. Roy bridges the approaches of business and economic history, illustrating the development of a distinctive regional capitalism. On each occasion of growth, connections with the global economy helped firms and entrepreneurs better manage risks. Making these deep connections between India's economic past and present shows why history matters in its remaking of capitalism today.
Author : Anthony Read
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1999-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393318982
A riveting account of the end of the Raj--the most romantic of all the great empires--told in compelling and colorful detail by the authors of "The Deadly Embrace" and "The Fall of Berlin." of photos.
Author : Douglas E. Haynes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520909488
This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that excluded the city's underclasses. Departing from traditional explanations that have seen this process as resulting from English education or radical transformations in society, Haynes emphasizes the importance of the unequal power relationship between the British and those Indians who struggled for political influence and justice within the colonial framework. A major contribution of the book is Haynes' analysis of the emergence and ultimate failure of Ghandian cultural meanings in Indian politics after 1923. The book addresses issues of importance to historians and anthropologists of India, to political scientists seeking to understand the origins of democracy in the "Third World," and general readers interested in comprehending processes of cultural change in colonial contexts.
