India and the Islamic Heartlands
Author | : Gagan D. S. Sood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781316483374 |
ISBN-13 | : 1316483371 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Download or read book India and the Islamic Heartlands written by Gagan D. S. Sood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.