Author:
Lally, Jagjeet, author.
ImprintOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Descriptionxiv, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Note:Environment -- Exchanges -- Power -- Traders -- Material culture -- Colonial conquest -- Knowledge -- Technology -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Varieties and prices of silk -- Appendix II. British subjects trading in Central Asia -- Appendix III. Volume and value of cotton cloth.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-399) and index.
Note:'India and the Silk Roads' is a global history of a continental interior, the first to comprehensively examine the textual and material traces of India's caravan trade with central Asia. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? This text brings the world of caravan trade to life-a world of merchants, mercenaries, pastoralists and pilgrims, but also of kings, bureaucrats and their subjects in the countryside and towns.
