"Shikarpuri Bankers & Powinda Traders in Afghan & Uzbek lands in the Nineteenth century" talk by Dr.Arup Ranjan Banerji at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 14th August 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Shikarpuri Bankers and Powinda Traders in Afghan and Uzbek lands in the Nineteenth century’ by Dr.Arup Ranjan Banerji, Department of History, University of Delhi.
Abstract : The economic relationship between India and Central Asia in the nineteenth century forms the principal concern of this lecture. Interest in selling British textiles and garments in the Uzbek Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva and Khokand, and Russia from about the 1840s prompted the East India Company to explore the possibilities of attracting Sindhi lenders like the Shikarpuris, to provide credit, the reliance on Powindas, as the Afghan nomad traders were known, to move textiles from India for horses from Central Asia, and the deployment of intelligence officials like Mohan Lal Kashmiri and Alexander Burnes to mount ostensibly non-military missions along the Indus to open markets in southern Eurasia. Unlike India’s trade with other regions, at the time, and including maritime and trans-frontier flows, the reasons why this commerce was hard to quantify and the distinctive nature of the business activity, based on the extraordinarily wide acceptance of hundis in Eurasia amidst the near absence of organized credit, will also be substantiated.
Speaker : Dr. Arup Banerji has taught Imperial Russian and Soviet history in the Department of History, Delhi University for several decades. He has written on the problems besetting agriculture, privatisation and the military in post-Soviet Russia as well as on depredatory European archaeological activity on both the Silk Routes between Dunhuang and Tashkent. His investigation of private business activity by Nepmen in the early Soviet Union appeared in 1996 as Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-30. His exploration of the structures, processes and experiences implicit in creating historical knowledge in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union appeared in 2008 as Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work. His study of commercial relations between South and Central Asia in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Old Routes: North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands, was published in 2011. This lecture draws on his findings in Old Routes.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Shikarpuri Bankers and Powinda Traders in Afghan and Uzbek lands in the Nineteenth century’ by Dr.Arup Ranjan Banerji, Department of History, University of Delhi.
Abstract : The economic relationship between India and Central Asia in the nineteenth century forms the principal concern of this lecture. Interest in selling British textiles and garments in the Uzbek Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva and Khokand, and Russia from about the 1840s prompted the East India Company to explore the possibilities of attracting Sindhi lenders like the Shikarpuris, to provide credit, the reliance on Powindas, as the Afghan nomad traders were known, to move textiles from India for horses from Central Asia, and the deployment of intelligence officials like Mohan Lal Kashmiri and Alexander Burnes to mount ostensibly non-military missions along the Indus to open markets in southern Eurasia. Unlike India’s trade with other regions, at the time, and including maritime and trans-frontier flows, the reasons why this commerce was hard to quantify and the distinctive nature of the business activity, based on the extraordinarily wide acceptance of hundis in Eurasia amidst the near absence of organized credit, will also be substantiated.
Speaker : Dr. Arup Banerji has taught Imperial Russian and Soviet history in the Department of History, Delhi University for several decades. He has written on the problems besetting agriculture, privatisation and the military in post-Soviet Russia as well as on depredatory European archaeological activity on both the Silk Routes between Dunhuang and Tashkent. His investigation of private business activity by Nepmen in the early Soviet Union appeared in 1996 as Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-30. His exploration of the structures, processes and experiences implicit in creating historical knowledge in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union appeared in 2008 as Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work. His study of commercial relations between South and Central Asia in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Old Routes: North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands, was published in 2011. This lecture draws on his findings in Old Routes.
Related Events : Talks | Trade | History
"Shikarpuri Bankers & Powinda Traders in Afghan & Uzbek lands in the Nineteenth century" talk by Dr.Arup Ranjan Banerji at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 14th August 2012
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