Iranians abroad: intra-Asian elite migration and early modern state formation
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Iranian elite migration to the South and South Asia proves that the worlds of trade and politics interpenetrated. The Tajik migrants occupied prominent place in trade and politics in the Mughal state as in the Deccan and Thailand. Their participation in trade and politics is attributed to their acquired skills in Persian accounting which were useful in the state's fiscal administration. The Iranian's possession of commercial, administrative and military skills facilitated their political ascendancy in India. Iranian migrants acted as cross-cultural brokers and merchants as well as expert administrators and accountants.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1992
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The birth of Europe as a Eurasian phenomenon
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The formation of European civilization in the 11th and 12th centuries is quite similar to the integrative developments discussed by Victor Lieberman for the early modern period of Eurasia from 1450 to 1830. North-western Europe, unified by a sense of itself as Latin Christendom, developed out of the periphery of the Mediterranean-centered civilization of the classical period. The similarities between the medieval and early modern periods suggest a recurring pattern of intensifications, differing in degree rather than in kind, instead of a stepwise historical progression.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1997
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Connected histories: notes towards a reconfiguration of early modern Eurasia
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Early modern history in Eurasia can be viewed profitably in terms of 'connected histories' that transcend political boundaries rather than 'comparative histories' that reify them. Nationalism and practices of historical ethnography that overemphasize differences have tended to obscure broader historical connections. The early modern period, broadly defined to extend from about the mid-14th to mid-18th centuries, is characterized by the spread of a set of myths and ideological constructs about state formation, such as millenarianism.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1997
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