Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook220 pages3 hours
Contours of Relationship: India and the Middle East: India and the Middle East
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
India’s relationship with the Middle East is a very good example of ties between people that are genuinely of historical. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East have down the ages been interacting with each other – travelling to each other’s lands, engaging in trade and commerce, settling down, intermarrying and contributing in every way possible in each other’s lives long before the political frontiers of the present emerged. It is difficult to readily comprehend that what appears today as the distinct regions of South Asia, Middle East and Central Asia were not readily comprehensible as distinct regions even a hundred years back. While the natural frontiers of the Hindu Kush, Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea divided the peoples into linguistic and cultural zones that were Indic, Arab, Persian and Turkic, (and a host of others) such cultural frontiers, despite being thick, were never quite hard. Thus while linguistic spaces were easily discernible (i.e. thick), people were always able to move (i.e. not hard) from one zone to the other, were at liberty to settle down and – according to the dynamics of immigration and settlement – be subsumed within the host population with a fair degree of ease. It is no wonder, therefore that Armenian, Iranian, Baghdadi Jewish, Sunni and Shi‘i Arab, Kabuli, Multani, Shikarpuri, Parsi, Ismaili, Surti, Sikh/ Punjabi, Peshawari and many other such communities moved back and forth across the overland trading routes that connected what is today South Asia with the Middle East.
Essays in this volume come principally out of a conference held in March 2016 at the University of Calcutta, organized by the Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies and Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and fully funded by the Netaji Institute of Asian Studies. The primary objective of the volume is to examine the contours of relationship between the peoples of the two regions, before the political frontiers of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East were fashioned in the middle of the twentieth century. Except for one, all the contributors have chosen to highlight the role played by individuals in the subcontinent or in the Middle East with supraregional connections or interests, engaging with their own immediate settings, influenced by forces, ideas or people from emanating from outside the region – the underlying argument being relationships between the people of the subcontinent and the Middle East are not confined simply to commercial or cultural exchanges alone. The fact that all the protagonists dealt with here happened to operate in the colonial era serves to indicate the vitality of the relationship, which stood independent of the nature and impact of the political system that obtained then.
Essays in this volume come principally out of a conference held in March 2016 at the University of Calcutta, organized by the Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies and Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and fully funded by the Netaji Institute of Asian Studies. The primary objective of the volume is to examine the contours of relationship between the peoples of the two regions, before the political frontiers of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East were fashioned in the middle of the twentieth century. Except for one, all the contributors have chosen to highlight the role played by individuals in the subcontinent or in the Middle East with supraregional connections or interests, engaging with their own immediate settings, influenced by forces, ideas or people from emanating from outside the region – the underlying argument being relationships between the people of the subcontinent and the Middle East are not confined simply to commercial or cultural exchanges alone. The fact that all the protagonists dealt with here happened to operate in the colonial era serves to indicate the vitality of the relationship, which stood independent of the nature and impact of the political system that obtained then.
Unavailable
Author
Prof Kingshuk Chatterjee
Kingshuk Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Calcutta University and is an adjunct at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Calcutta University. He is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies, Calcutta University.
Related to Contours of Relationship
Related ebooks
From Indus to Independence: A Trek Through Indian History (Vol III The Disintegration of Empires) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Indus to Independence: A Trek Through Indian History (Vol IV The Onslaught of Islam) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUrdu: Echoes of History and Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Arab Conquests in Central Asia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Making of South East Asia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBook of Changes: A Modern Interpretation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWho Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAncient India - Its Language And Religions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Illustrated Handbook of Buddhist Architecture - Including Architecture from, Ceylon, India, Burmah, Java and More Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt the Margins: Four Years in South Asia and West Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory of India from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century B.C. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGovernment and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGale Researcher Guide for: Global Connections, Catastrophes, and Early Modern Trade Networks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Brief History of Bashulia’s National Constitution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPersian Art Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pashto Resonance: A Journey through the History of the Pashto Language Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThey Came to Malaya Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Understanding Ancient India Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHinduism and Buddhism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pakistan at the Crossroads: Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5With Alexander in India and Central Asia: moving east and back to west Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wisdom of the Analects Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContested Modernity: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Bahrain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndian Cultural Diplomacy: Celebrating Pluralism in a Globalised World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Asian History For You
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War: Illustrated Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legends of the Samurai Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962—1976 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, the Human Spirit, and Living a Good Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Voices from Chernobyl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charlie Wilson's War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Contours of Relationship
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews