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020			_a9780143426165
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi _c: 123197 _d: 18/09/2026
082			_a381.0954 LEV
100			_aLevi, Scott C.
245			_aCaravans _b: Punjabi Khatri merchants on the Silk Road. _c/Scott C. Levi.
260			_aGurgaon _b: Penguin Random House _c, 2016.
300			_axxxi, 197p. _c: 18cm.
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520			_a‘Fills many gaps in our knowledge of India’s vibrant business past . . . highlights India’s pervasive role in the Silk Road’—Business Standard Caravans tells the fascinating story of countless Punjabi Khatri merchants who built great business empires through their ingenuity and spirit of adventure. Operating during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, these merchants risked everything and travelled across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and Russia. They used sophisticated techniques to convert a modest amount of merchandise into vast portfolios for trade and moneylending ventures. Caravans challenges the belief that the rising tide of European trade in the Indian Ocean usurped the overland ‘Silk Road’ trade, and demonstrates how thousands of Punjabis created a booming market in Central Asia at precisely this historical moment.
650			_aCommerce
650			_aIndian Business
650			_aEconomy
700			_aScott C. Levi.
942			_cBOOK
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