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Gujarat and the Trade of East Africa, c.1500-1800
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The lack of reliable standard histories of the Indian Ocean world has been identified as one of the most persistent problems confronting historians of East Africa as discussed by the authors, especially in the case of the Portuguese seaborne empire.Abstract:
One of the more persistent problems confronting historians of East Africa remains the lack of reliable standard histories of the Indian Ocean world. Topics which are especially affected by this lacuna in the historical literature are the problem of Indonesian contacts, the history of Islam on the coast, and the economic history of both the coast and the interior. Only in the case of the Portuguese seaborne empire do we possess a series of studies which places East Africa squarely in the context of the Indian Ocean system.1 In this respect Indian Ocean studies lag far behind those of the Atlantic Ocean.2 Although we are aware of close commercial links existing between East Africa and India throughout the better part of the present millennium, we know littleread more
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Indian businessmen in kenya during the twentieth century: a case study
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Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview
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