Lords of the Sea: The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar (1663-1723)

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-18021-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: TANAP Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction

In the second half of the seventeenth century the political and ritual relationships between the various elite houses of the kingdom of Cannanore on the Malabar Coast were affected by the shifting patterns in the Indian Ocean maritime trade. This study shows how the Arackal Ali Rajas, the most prominent maritime merchants in early-modern Malabar, managed to fence off the attempts of the Dutch East India Company to gain control of the regional trade, and how they succeeded in maintaining their commercial network across the Indian Ocean intact.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mailaparambil, Binu John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Binu John Mailaparambil (1973) is affiliated to the Department of History at Bielefeld University, Germany. He obtained his MA in History at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala, India, and obtained a doctorate in History at the University of Leiden in 2007.