01514nam a22002177a 4500 2050 2050 OSt 20181226110545.0 181226b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978-0-143-42616-5 Allied Informatics, Jaipur 5712 17/12/2018 2018-19 BSDU English BSDU 338.0954 LEV Levi, Scott C. Caravans: Punjabi Khatri Merchants on the Silk Road Gurgaon Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd., 2016 197 Caravans tells the fascinating story of countless Punjabi Khatri merchants who built great business empires through their ingenuity and spirit of adventure. Operating during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, these merchants risked everything and traveled across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and Russia. They used sophisticated techniques to convert a modest amount of merchandise into vast portfolios for trade and money lending ventures. Caravans challenges the belief that the rising tide of European trade in the Indian Ocean usurped the overland Silk Road trade, and demonstrates how thousands of Punjabis created a booming market in Central Asia at precisely this historical moment. Contents: Introduction Merchants and the State Multanis and Shikarpuris Indian Merchants in Central Asia Indian Textiles The Slave Trade Horses The Life and Death of a Diaspora Conclusion Notes Bibliography Economics ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 BSDU BSDU GEN 2018-12-26 299.00 0 338.0954 LEV 017658 2020-02-12 00:00:00 299.00 2018-12-26 BK