A Sea of Debt
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A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950

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A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950

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In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, Swahili and Baloch merchants, planters, jurists, judges, soldiers and seamen forged the frontiers of a shared world. The interlinked worlds of trade and politics that these actors created, the shared commercial grammars and institutions that they developed and the spatial and socio-economic mobilities they engaged in endured until at least the middle of the twentieth century. This major study examines the Indian Ocean from Oman to India and East Africa over an extended period of time, drawing together the histories of commerce, law and empire in a sophisticated, original and richly textured history of capitalism in the Islamic world.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781108327176
Topic
History
Subtopic
Indian & South Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Prologue
  10. 1 A Geography of Obligation
  11. 2 Life and Debt
  12. 3 Paper Routes
  13. Interlude
  14. 4 Translating Transactions
  15. 5 Making Africa Indian
  16. 6 Muslim Mortgages
  17. 7 Capital Moves
  18. 8 Unraveling Obligation
  19. Epilogue
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index