What is Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s argument about merchant diasporas and states in the Indian Ocean ‘rim’ and what are its implications for understanding the early modern period in South Asia?
Assigned Article S. Subrahmanyam, “ ‘Of Imarat and Tijarat’, Asian Merchants and State Power in the Western Indian Ocean, 1400-1750”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 1995, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 750-780, http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/pdfplus/179208.pdf?acceptTC=true Aim of Assignment In this assignment, you are required to discuss this scholarly article relating to trade (tijarat) and state-formation … Continue reading “What is Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s argument about merchant diasporas and states in the Indian Ocean ‘rim’ and what are its implications for understanding the early modern period in South Asia?”