Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 Book

	List of illustrations
	Preface
	Note on transliteration
	Abbreviations
1	An Indian world economy	1
	The Indian diaspora	1
	The Eurasian context	7
2	India, Iran and Turan in 1600	14
	The economies	15
	Commerce and the state	30
	Intra-Asian trade	42
3	The Indian diaspora in Iran and Turan	45
	Trade routes	46
	Multan and the Multanis	55
	Mediatory trade	64
	The Multanis of Isfahan	66
	Technology transfers	75
4	Indo-Russian commerce in the early modern era	78
	The Uzbeks of the Franks	78
	The Indian "guest-house" in Astrakhan	86
	Borzois and gyrfalcons	90
	The New Trade Regulations	95
	Merchants and the state	98
5	The Indian diaspora in the Volga basin	101
	The Indian community in Astrakhan	101
	Patterns of Indian commerce	108
	The Indian "firm" in Astrakhan	112
	"Companies" and capital	121
	Peddlers, merchants and moneylenders	126
6	Imperial collapse, mercantilism and the Mughul diaspora	128
	Multanis and Multan	129
	Indian entrepreneurs and Eurasian trade	133
	Appendix	139
	Bibliography	142
	Index	158