Globalization before its Time: Gujarati Traders in the Indian Ocean by Gurcharan Das, Edition 2016
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during the dying days of the Mughal empire, merchants from Kachchh established a flourishing overseas trade. Building on a rich legacy of free trade in pre-modern times between the many ports of Gujarat and the Middle East, the Kachchhis dealt in pearls, dates, spices and ivory with the faraway lands of Muscat and Zanzibar.
The Kachchhi merchants behaved much like today
- Author:Gurcharan Das (Foreword, Editor), Chhaya Goswami (Author), Jaithirth Rao
- Binding Type:Paperback
- ISBN:9780143425120
- Total Pages:272
- Publishing Year:2016
- Language:English