Indian Ocean, early modern - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Indian Ocean, early modern - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Risso, Patricia

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062272
Doc. NO	:	ALei2669
Main Entry	:	Risso, Patricia
Title & Author	:	Indian Ocean, early modern - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Risso, Patricia
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,028 words)
Abstract	:	The Indian Ocean during the early modern period (tenth-twelfth/sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) was characterised by new political arrangements and by acceleration of contacts amongst the ocean’s coastal populations, as trade increased and the demand for migrant labour rose to fill the ranks of sailors, dockhands, agriculture workers, and household servants. Another characteristic was the increasing presence of western Europeans backed by governments with commercial and imperial aspirations. India’s two long coastlines faced two parts of the Indian Ocean: the Sea of Bengal was the route to Southeast
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2669.pdf