Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 16001750 (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780521525978
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; International - General; History; History - General History; History: World; ASIA; Middle East - General; Business & Economics-International - General; History / Middle East; India--Commerce--Eurasia--History
First sentence: In a discussion of the commerce and business classes of Safavid Iran (1501-1722), Mehdi Keyvani has remarked that the presence and proliferation of Indian "moneychangers" in several major Iranian cities during the later Safavid period is "an astonishing and unexplained episode of Iranian economic history."