TY - BOOK AU - Alpers, Edward A. AU - Goswami, Chhaya TI - Transregional trade and traders: situating Gujarat in the Indian ocean from early times to 1900 SN - 9780199490684 U1 - 381.5095475 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Trade KW - Traders KW - Maritime exchange KW - Gujarat KW - Indian Ocean N1 - Table of Contents Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction Edward A. Alpers and Chhaya Goswami Part One: Historiography, Method, Sources 1. Forty Years On: Gujarat in the Indian Ocean Edward A. Alpers 2. Gujarat in the History of the Indian Ocean: Navigating Maritime Pasts Lakshmi Subramanian 3. Gujarat and Long-Distance Trade in the Indian Ocean Region before the Sixteenth Century Philip Beaujard 4. Early Historic Gujarat and the Trading World of the Western Indian Ocean Himanshu Prabha Ray 5. The Commercial Network of Gujarat in the Light of the Jewish Documentary Geniza (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) Ranabir Chakravarti 6. Reaching across Land and Sea: The Trans-regional Networks of a Local Man Samira Sheikh Part Two: Commodities 7. Filling Hearts with Joy: Handcrafted 'Indian Textiles' Exports to Central Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century Sarah Fee 8. Surat: City of Ivory Martha Chaiklin 9. Coffee Mocha: From the Highlands of Yemen to Surat, Muscat, and Mandvi Chhaya Goswami 10. Ratansi Purshottam, the Gujaratis of Muscat, and the Global Connectivity of Indian Ocean Transregional Markets Calvin H. Allen, Jr. 11. Adjusting Output to Demand: Weavers and Collateral Service Providers' Equation with the English Merchants in Gujarat in the Seventeenth Century Nishat Manzar Part Three: Trading Networks and Diaspora 12. Gujarati Merchant Diaspora in South East Asia (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) Ruby Maloni 13. The Deepest Blue Sea: Gujarati Merchant Shipping and the Commercial Currents of the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Pedro Machado 14. Merchants and Marts: Gujarat's Networks of Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Radhika Seshan 15. Migration and Creation of New Societies: A Story from the Indian Ocean Abdul Sheriff Index Notes on Editors and Contributors N2 - Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange that involved not only goods, but also people and ideas. This volume maps the trajectory of the extra-continental interactions of Gujarat and how it shaped the history of the Indian Ocean. Chronologically, the volume spans two millennia, and geographically, it ranges from the Red Sea to Southeast Asia. The book focuses on specific groups of Gujarati traders and their accessibility and trading activities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. It not only analyses the complex process of commodity circulation, involving a host of players, huge investments, and numerous commercial operations, but also engages with questions of migration and diaspora. Paying close attention to current historiographical debates, the contributors make serious efforts to challenge the neat regional boundaries that are often drawn around the trading history of Gujarat. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transregional-trade-and-traders-9780199490684?type=listing&lang=en&cc=mo# ER -