The Indian Ocean in the making of early modern India / 
edited by Pius Malekandathil. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations (black and white) 
<br/><br/> This volume looks into the ways Indian Oceanroutes shaped the culture and contours of early modern India. IT shows how these and other historical processes saw India rebuilt and reshaped during late medieval times after a long age of relative stagnation', isolation' and backwardness'. The various papers deal with such themesincluding interconnectedness between Africa and India, trade and urbanity in Golconda, the changing meanings of urbanization in Bengal, commercial and cultural contact between Aceh and India, changing techniques of warfare, representation of early modern rulers of India in contemporary European paintings, the impact of the Indian Ocean on the foreign policies of the Mughals, the meanings of piracy, labour process in the textile sector, Indo-Ottoman trade, Maratha-French relations, Bible translations and religious polemics, weapon making and the uses of elephants. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern Indian history in general and those working on aspects of connected histories in particular. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781351997454 1351997459 9781315276809 1315276801 9781351997447 1351997440 9781351997461 1351997467 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Merchant marine--History.--Indian Ocean Region<br/>Trade routes--History.--Indian Ocean<br/>TRANSPORTATION--Ships & Shipbuilding--Pictorial.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Commerce--History.<br/>Indian Ocean Region--Commerce--History.<br/>Indian Ocean Region--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>387.50954