Indian Ocean, early modern

by Risso, Patricia

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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. Ind…

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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

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2669

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eng Islam

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Risso, Patricia

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