This book demonstrates the central position of Gujarat in the historical trading economy of the Indian Ocean World. Over a period of two thousand years, Gujarati traders exchanged commodities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. The fifteen chapters in the book reflect this global history in sections organized under the headings of 'Historiography, Method, Sources' , 'Commodities', and 'Trading Networks andDiasporas'.
This book demonstrates the central position of Gujarat in the historical trading economy of the Indian Ocean World. Over a period of two thousand years, Gujarati traders exchanged commodities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. The fifteen chapters in the book reflect this global history in sections organized under the headings of 'Historiography, Method, Sources' , 'Commodities', and 'Trading Networks andDiasporas'.
Edward A. Alpers is research professor at the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Chhaya Goswami is head of the Department of History, S.K. Somaiya College, Mumbai, India.
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* Contents * List of Illustrations and Tables * Introduction * Edward A. Alpers and Chhaya Goswami * Part One: Historiography, Method, Sources * 1. Forty Years On: Gujarat in the Indian Ocean * Edward A. Alpers * 2. Gujarat in the History of the Indian Ocean: * Navigating Maritime Pasts * Lakshmi Subramanian * 3. Gujarat and Long-Distance Trade in the Indian * Ocean Region before the Sixteenth Century * Philip Beaujard * 4. Early Historic Gujarat and the Trading World of the Western Indian Ocean * Himanshu Prabha Ray * 5. The Commercial Network of Gujarat in the Light of the Jewish Documentary Geniza (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) * Ranabir Chakravarti * 6. Reaching across Land and Sea: The Trans-regional Networks of a Local Man * Samira Sheikh * Part Two: Commodities * 7. Filling Hearts with Joy: Handcrafted 'Indian Textiles' * Exports to Central Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century * Sarah Fee * 8. Surat: City of Ivory * Martha Chaiklin * 9. Coffee Mocha: From the Highlands of Yemen * to Surat, Muscat, and Mandvi * Chhaya Goswami * 10. Ratansi Purshottam, the Gujaratis of Muscat, * and the Global Connectivity of Indian Ocean * Transregional Markets * Calvin H. Allen, Jr. * 11. Adjusting Output to Demand: Weavers and * Collateral Service Providers' Equation with the English * Merchants in Gujarat in the Seventeenth Century * Nishat Manzar * Part Three: Trading Networks and Diaspora * 12. Gujarati Merchant Diaspora in South East Asia * (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) * Ruby Maloni * 13. The Deepest Blue Sea: Gujarati Merchant Shipping and the Commercial Currents of the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries * Pedro Machado * 14. Merchants and Marts: Gujarat's Networks of Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries * Radhika Seshan * 15. Migration and Creation of New Societies: A Story * from the Indian Ocean * Abdul Sheriff * Index * Notes on Editors and Contributors
* Contents * List of Illustrations and Tables * Introduction * Edward A. Alpers and Chhaya Goswami * Part One: Historiography, Method, Sources * 1. Forty Years On: Gujarat in the Indian Ocean * Edward A. Alpers * 2. Gujarat in the History of the Indian Ocean: * Navigating Maritime Pasts * Lakshmi Subramanian * 3. Gujarat and Long-Distance Trade in the Indian * Ocean Region before the Sixteenth Century * Philip Beaujard * 4. Early Historic Gujarat and the Trading World of the Western Indian Ocean * Himanshu Prabha Ray * 5. The Commercial Network of Gujarat in the Light of the Jewish Documentary Geniza (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) * Ranabir Chakravarti * 6. Reaching across Land and Sea: The Trans-regional Networks of a Local Man * Samira Sheikh * Part Two: Commodities * 7. Filling Hearts with Joy: Handcrafted 'Indian Textiles' * Exports to Central Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century * Sarah Fee * 8. Surat: City of Ivory * Martha Chaiklin * 9. Coffee Mocha: From the Highlands of Yemen * to Surat, Muscat, and Mandvi * Chhaya Goswami * 10. Ratansi Purshottam, the Gujaratis of Muscat, * and the Global Connectivity of Indian Ocean * Transregional Markets * Calvin H. Allen, Jr. * 11. Adjusting Output to Demand: Weavers and * Collateral Service Providers' Equation with the English * Merchants in Gujarat in the Seventeenth Century * Nishat Manzar * Part Three: Trading Networks and Diaspora * 12. Gujarati Merchant Diaspora in South East Asia * (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) * Ruby Maloni * 13. The Deepest Blue Sea: Gujarati Merchant Shipping and the Commercial Currents of the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries * Pedro Machado * 14. Merchants and Marts: Gujarat's Networks of Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries * Radhika Seshan * 15. Migration and Creation of New Societies: A Story * from the Indian Ocean * Abdul Sheriff * Index * Notes on Editors and Contributors
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