The Indian merchant community of Masqaṭ

Contenu

Titre

The Indian merchant community of Masqaṭ

Créateur

Allen, Jr, Calvin H. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

1981

Dans

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

In 1836 the Arabian traveller J. R. Wellsted described the Hindu community of Masqaṭ, 'Umān, as constituting ‘a body of the principal merchants’ of that port. By the 1870s the Indian merchants dominated the commercial life of Masqaṭ and had replaced the Āl Bū Sa'īd rulers of the town as the paramount economic power in 'Umān. While this community has much wider significance than their pivotal role in the commerce of Masqaṭ and 'Umān (the Indian merchants in Masqaṭ were a component of the great Indian Ocean trading network, and as Hindus and Shī'īs in a Sunnī, more properly Khārijī, country they offer potential insights into the status of minority groups in Muslim states) the focus of this study is the more specific problem of their origins, development and social and economic activities in Masqaṭ to the end of the nineteenth century.

Langue

eng

volume

44

numéro

1

pages

39-53

doi

10.1017/S0041977X00104392

issn

0041-977X, 1474-0699

Source

Fonds Martin Custers Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Ibadica Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Allen, Jr, Calvin H., “The Indian merchant community of Masqaṭ”, 1981, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/5111