期刊全称 | Beyond Borders | 期刊简称 | Indo-Sasanian Trade | 影响因子2023 | Ashish Kumar | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Takes a network approach to the study of the ancient Malwa region and economy in central India.Focuses on the role of traders in political and economic transformations in the region.Traces trade route | 学科分类 | Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book examines the economic history of ancient South Asia by situating the Malwa region of Central India within Afro-Eurasian trade networks to illuminate the role of traders in the political, religious and economic processes connected with the Indo-Sasanian trade in the period of five centuries, circa CE 300-700...The book challenges the long-held centrality of the Roman factor in the South Asian economy by locating the Indo-Sasanian interactions in long distance economic networks with trade as a central feature. It considers the role and influence of traders as an understudied group affecting the contribution of the Indian economy to the world system. Amidst rapidly changing political landscapes, traders of Indian and Sasanian origins are studied as conscious political beings, who formed ties with varieties of polities and religious communities to secure their commercial interests. In addition, their commercial interactions with their Sogdian (Central Asia) and Aksumite (East Africa) counterparts are analyzed. The book also considers the nature of trade routes and the specific connections between mercantile and religious networks, including patterns of construction of religi | Pindex | Book 2023 |
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