Eighteenth-Century Gujarat
The Dynamics of Its Political Economy, 1750-1800
Biographical note
G. A. Nadri (1972) obtained his MA in History (1993) and M Phil. (1996) from Aligarh Muslim University and his PhD (2007) from Leiden University. He is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, Atlanta. His main interests are the socio-economic history of early modern Gujarat/South Asia and the maritime trade of the Indian Ocean.
Readership
All those interested in the social and economic history of early modern South Asia, Indian Ocean commerce, and South Asia's colonial transition in the eighteenth century.
Reviews
"Nadri’s book on Gujarat’s economy is a stimulating and thorough study of a prosperous eighteenth century region, largely drawn from Dutch and English archives and some important unpublished Persian materials."
SAMIRA SHEIKH, Vanderbilt University, Journal of Asian Studies, 70 (2011).
SAMIRA SHEIKH, Vanderbilt University, Journal of Asian Studies, 70 (2011).
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