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The making of the Indo-Islamic world: c.700-1800 CE

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge University Press 2020 CambridgeDescription: xi, 297 p.: ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781108405652
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954 W4M2
Summary: In a new accessible narrative, Andre Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world, he argues that the long-term development and transformation of Indo-Islamic history is best understood as the outcome of a major shift in the relationship between the sedentary peasant societies of the river plains, the nomads of the great Saharasian arid zone and the seafaring populations of the Indian Ocean. This revisionist work redraws the Asian past as the outcome of the fusion of these different types of settled and mobile societies, placing geography and environment at the center of human history https://www.cambridge.org/in/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/making-indo-islamic-world-c7001800-ce?format=PB
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In a new accessible narrative, Andre Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world, he argues that the long-term development and transformation of Indo-Islamic history is best understood as the outcome of a major shift in the relationship between the sedentary peasant societies of the river plains, the nomads of the great Saharasian arid zone and the seafaring populations of the Indian Ocean. This revisionist work redraws the Asian past as the outcome of the fusion of these different types of settled and mobile societies, placing geography and environment at the center of human history

https://www.cambridge.org/in/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/making-indo-islamic-world-c7001800-ce?format=PB

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