Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1 South Asian merchant networks
- 2 The regional context: Sind economy and society, c. 1750–1950
- 3 The Gate of Khorrassan: the Shikarpuri network, c. 1750–1947
- 4 From Kobe to Panama: the Sindworkies of Hyderabad
- 5 Patterns of circulation and business organization in two merchant networks
- 6 The business of the Sind merchants
- 7 The politics of merchant networks
- 8 Community and gender in two merchant networks
- 9 Epilogue: the Sindhi diaspora after 1947
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1 South Asian merchant networks
- 2 The regional context: Sind economy and society, c. 1750–1950
- 3 The Gate of Khorrassan: the Shikarpuri network, c. 1750–1947
- 4 From Kobe to Panama: the Sindworkies of Hyderabad
- 5 Patterns of circulation and business organization in two merchant networks
- 6 The business of the Sind merchants
- 7 The politics of merchant networks
- 8 Community and gender in two merchant networks
- 9 Epilogue: the Sindhi diaspora after 1947
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama, pp. x - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000