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020			_a978-0-143-42616-5
028			_bAllied Informatics, Jaipur _c5712 _d17/12/2018 _q2018-19
040			_aBSDU _bEnglish _cBSDU
082			_a338.0954 _bLEV
100			_aLevi, Scott C.
245			_aCaravans: Punjabi Khatri Merchants on the Silk Road
260			_aGurgaon _bPenguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd., _c2016
300			_a197
500			_aCaravans 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.
504			_aContents: 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
650			_aEconomics
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