Journal of World History

Wills, John E. (John Elliot), 1936-
Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (review)
Journal of World History - Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 1997, pp. 333-335

University of Hawai'i Press

John E. (John Elliot) Wills - Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (review) - Journal of World History 8:2 Journal of World History 8.2 (1997) 333-335 Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750. By Stephen Frederik Dale. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 162. $54.95 (cloth). From about 1620 to 1720, a colony of Hindu merchants settled under Muscovite rule at Astrakhan at the mouth of the Volga played a crucial role in the Muscovite state's commercial and political expansion on its inland frontiers. They maintained their ceremonial life and cremated their dead. As late as 1824 an English traveler noted the general religious toleration and the number of Hindu temples there. In Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750, Stephen Frederik Dale presents his brief, fact-packed account of the rise and fall of this...